Comments on: Let’s play find the link http://bloggasm.com/lets-play-find-the-link Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Robert Nagle http://bloggasm.com/lets-play-find-the-link/comment-page-1#comment-79970 Robert Nagle Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:18:48 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=1957#comment-79970 This touches upon another pet peeve of mine. When linking to someone, refer to the person who wrote the original article by name. NYTIMES didn't report something. Thomas Friedman did (etc...). Of course, in the blogging world where bloggers have cute/noncute monikers (Camworld, Easter Lemming Liberal, Daily Kos), it is sometimes hard to figure out who actually wrote the article. That is a bad thing too. Unless your name is shielded to prevent political reprisals, I see no reason why linkers can't refer to the person who actually wrote the article. Economist (and CNN too I think) have popularized the no-byline news article. This touches upon another pet peeve of mine. When linking to someone, refer to the person who wrote the original article by name. NYTIMES didn’t report something. Thomas Friedman did (etc…).

Of course, in the blogging world where bloggers have cute/noncute monikers (Camworld, Easter Lemming Liberal, Daily Kos), it is sometimes hard to figure out who actually wrote the article. That is a bad thing too.

Unless your name is shielded to prevent political reprisals, I see no reason why linkers can’t refer to the person who actually wrote the article.

Economist (and CNN too I think) have popularized the no-byline news article.

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