Archive for June, 2008
Why I’m resurrecting the ‘link journalism’ argument
(hat tip to Chris Brogan for mentioning this issue (and the Scott Karp post) on his AWESOME blog!)
About two years ago, before I lost everything to the ‘oh dear lord’ crash of 2006, I had a tonne of articles talking about a disturbing trend in the blogging/journalistic communities - and that was ‘link love’/'link journalism’.
At the time, a lot of people that read the articles considered them a ‘hail mary’ to the equally disturbing trend of link breakage - sites with stupid amounts of content would sometimes ‘lose’ articles you linked to - which meant that any backwards tracking of your ’sources’ - be them defunct blogs (which, ironically, forced me to remove a lot of my own linked back content after that crash) or news items that had ‘moved’ or ‘vanished’ in everywhere but the Google cache, which in and of itself is finite.