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Posted on 08-23-2007 at 04:22pm
Nerd Controversy
Filed Under (Internet) by Katherine Coble on 08-23-2007

Silence started it. But Jack Lail brought it to my attention in his referring post.

The debate is that the NYT seems to think that proper attribution on a blog consists of not only a link, but a clear description of the linksource.

I never realised until this moment in time that I do it both ways. It just depends on my mood.

Anyway, they’re talking about it over at Michael Silence’s Blog, No Silence Here.

(Hope I covered all the bases for the NYT lady.)

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Comments

Jeffraham Prestonian on 23 August, 2007 at 6:24 pm #

Fork the forking New York Forking Times. And Debbie Howell of the WaPo, too.
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Reality Me » What's the right way to attribute a source? on 24 August, 2007 at 9:31 am #

[…] to Michael’s post. Jail Lail has linked to it. He even twittered it. Music City Bloggers have it covered. Has the NYT actually linked to it yet? If so, how did they attribute their […]


He Plays, err, Blogs the Right Way : Hear ItFrom.Us on 24 August, 2007 at 1:55 pm #

[…] the recent talk locally about proper link attribution prompted me to finish a post I started a while back about blogging and […]