wife blog on linking

erin has, over time, gotten into reading a few blogs. some are for her enjoyment, some are for business interests, and then this one . she probably reads this one so that she can correct my grammar or understand the depths of my soul, not sure which one yet.

one of her blogs that she keeps up with now is penelope trunk, who we heard of for the first time at barcamp nashville. sometimes erin likes her advice, sometimes she knows that she is just stirring the pot, other times it more of a "what'd you think of that one?" her most recent post was a "is this for real?" kinda of questioning on proper blog post linking.

i liked the breakdown, some i do here, some i've tried, some i have never even thought of. the one that got me ranting to erin was the hat tip link (which sorta surprised me). i see so many posts out in the blog world that generate the same content within hours or days (that are linked by at least one of my networks so it is not unrealistic to assume one read the other as i did) and people never give a tip for finding an article/video, stemming a thought.. to me that is just bad form. it isn't painful & people appreciate the respect that you give for the original linking & are more likely to give you traffic back.

there i go again ranting

update: seems the original post is taken down. i have the post in draft form to expand on it a little more later if it doesn't return. for now, just go with my rant. &:~)

Comments

[Wabi-Sabi]

So what's the rule about having a bad link in your blog post about blog linking?

hmmm

:)

[gavin]

that's pretty funny jim. the post still shows up in my reader, but apparently the full thing was taken off the blog. hmmm...