http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/03/does-your-web-site-have-links-to-nowhere/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/03/does-your-web-site-have-links-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-12329 David Carr: The reckoning is at hand for free content » Nieman Journalism Lab Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:12:10 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=3627#comment-12329 [...] NYT’s online publishing system, however, has supplied six nearly meaningless robolinks to topics it has found in its database. Is this the kind of “search-friendly landing [...] [...] NYT’s online publishing system, however, has supplied six nearly meaningless robolinks to topics it has found in its database. Is this the kind of “search-friendly landing [...]

]]> http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/03/does-your-web-site-have-links-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-11368 s Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:34:56 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=3627#comment-11368 Took me a minute to get why the Baltimore Sun would be Chicago-centric. Then I remembered the Tribune parent company is still around and apparently still has a sense of humor on April Fools' Day: http://www.tribune.com/ Took me a minute to get why the Baltimore Sun would be Chicago-centric. Then I remembered the Tribune parent company is still around and apparently still has a sense of humor on April Fools’ Day: http://www.tribune.com/

]]> http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/03/does-your-web-site-have-links-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-11346 nicole Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:23:37 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=3627#comment-11346 That's the problem with robo-linking (there are so many sites where, for instance, a company name is links to a tag that gives you further stories from the same site about the company, assuming you know who they are and that's what you want) and in some cases humble blogs are much better, because the person who writes is the same one who links. And if something gets messed up -- can fix it, pronto... That’s the problem with robo-linking (there are so many sites where, for instance, a company name is links to a tag that gives you further stories from the same site about the company, assuming you know who they are and that’s what you want) and in some cases humble blogs are much better, because the person who writes is the same one who links. And if something gets messed up — can fix it, pronto…

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