Comments on: Blogging Isn’t Dead, But Linking May Be Broken

By: Madmac

Madmac — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:00:45 +0000

1. Always link out to as many sources as you can to provide the reader with further reading and to strengthen your argument.

"As many sources as you can" is not desirable in the information age, let alone good material for a list of best practices. Excesses are our major downfall. Just look at the economy, and ask yourself if it would be that way if each company behaved like a Bonsai tree instead of an ogle eyed monster. Information overload, which is one of our biggest current problems, happens to be the very issue which drove Paul Boutin to write his piece, if read closely.

By: Ladybeams

Ladybeams — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:23:32 +0000

Thanks for the reminder on etiquette. Many new bloggers need to figure out how it works, many old bloggers need a reminder sometimes.

I wish I could see the right side of this blog. It looks like you have some interesting stuff, but the column is cut in half in AOL. (of course most stuff doesn’t work right in AOL.LOL.)

By: mdvaldosta

mdvaldosta — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:14:29 +0000

I think many bloggers have become much more “link concious” now that Google Adsense has turned a vast majority of bloggers who blogged for fun into bloggers who blog for money. Bloggers, more than ever, understand things like pagerank and monetization. I think (hope) that once that newness wears off people will start blogging for their readers again.

By: stog301

stog301 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:24:28 +0000

This guy is a cry baby. It’s lost it’s intimacy so have newspapers so quit.