Harris' "forwarding" is used everyday by nearly everyone, in nearly every mode of discourse. We use it in our conversations, our emails, our essays, and even in our own thoughts. We are constantly taking new ideas that we read or watch and using them to our own benefit. This benefit in terms of "forwarding" takes the ideas and uses the positive sides of them. Rather than bashing an idea for its downfalls, "forwarding" takes the positives and utilizes them. We, through "forwarding", further our understandings of ideas. Not only are using it to help ourselves to understand new ideas, but we also use "forwarding" to help people understand our ideas. So I guess my definition of "forwarding" would be the use of an ideas positive aspects to further either our understanding of the outside worlds ideas, or to encourage the understanding of our ideas by the outside world.
The blog that I read which contains the most "forwarding" from what I can tell is fivethirtyeight. One very strong example of this is Nate Silver's 15 questions to help predict the outcome of a close election. This idea was borrowed by Silver from Bill James' "Keltner list". Although the "Keltner list" was a list of question designed to decide whether or not a baseball player who was on the line for the the hall of fame would get in or not, the idea is the same. By taking James' idea and applying it to another aspect of the world he was "forwarding" the idea or more specifically "borrowing" the idea.
In this particular case of "forwarding" Silver altered more than he lost or gained. The realm of sports and the realm of politics are so very different that it would be difficult for Silver to directly use the questions posed by James. But by altering the questions to fit his needs, while still keeping the same format, Silver "forwards" the idea of the 15 questions to help decide borderline predictions. Obviously since this questions are for predictions and not facts they cannot be held to a factual standard. They can only be regarded as a tool for political analysts to help discuss the close political races. In this case Silver "borrowed" the idea that James' created to help further his ability to predict political races.
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Your example of Silver using the Keltner list seems right on. It might even better illustrate Harris's idea of extending, since Silver is using the list in a significantly new way, but the example holds. I also liked how you defined "forwarding" as being part of everyone's daily conversation practice. It is more than an academic idea.
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