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The New York Times When Linking Isn't Better Business
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"Links, it can be argued, are the fundamental innovation of the World Wide Web. The ability to click on a word or phrase and be transported to another page on a distant Web site is the catalyst for the Internet's unprecedented growth.

But not everyone loves hypertext links. Take the Better Business Bureau, for example."

redux [06.16.00]
The New York Times Is Linking Illegal?
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"A crucial aspect of online journalism is the ability to garnish articles with hyperlinks that instantly refer readers to Web sites related to newsworthy issues.

But suppose one of those sites contains material alleged to be illegal--a pirated copy of an author�s book, perhaps, or an unlawful software program. Is the publisher who did the linking in hot water?

The answer, according to legal papers recently filed by eight motion picture studios in a closely-watched federal case in Manhattan, is sometimes yes and sometimes no."

redux [05.30.00]
Release 1.0 The Web Goes Into Syndication
"The shape of content and business relationships on the Web is tied to an old concept. Syndication, drawn from the closed world of traditional media, may be the model that allows the Web to remain open as it grows.

As with any new medium, the Net incorporates elements of media that came before. From Oprah to Dilbert, syndication deals are the lifeblood of today's broadcasting, cable and newspaper industries. In such arrangements, entities that create content license it out to distributors who integrate it with their own and other offerings. Several major Web-based companies adopted the syndication approach early on, though the market has remained fairly limited.

Online syndication is now poised to explode. But even as it changes the Net, the Net will change syndication. On the Web, the concept applies to commerce as well as content, and soon it will extend to dynamic applications. Syndication will evolve into the core model for the Internet economy, allowing businesses and individuals to retain control over their online personae while enjoying the benefits of massive scale and scope."
DaveNet A Bright Future for Syndication
"In our system, each story has a *single* location, the site where it originated. We think this is the way new information is obtained. Comments from readers can add new facts and ideas and link to other related stories. And the portal sites, the ones with the huge flow, can play a big role, because in this model, they get paid for many (but not all) of the hits they deliver. It's a micro-payment form of what they already do so well on a much larger scale."

The New York Times Legality of 'Deep Linking' Remains Deeply Complicated
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"When a federal judge issued a decision last week in a case involving "deep linking," many reports suggested that the controversial Internet practice was now unambiguously legal. But the story is more complex than that. In fact, deep linking -- the practice of linking to a page deep inside another Web site, bypassing its home page -- still appears to be in legal limbo."

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“"You're not a designer, you're not a writer, and you're not an editor!"

Well, no, blogger, you're not. And therein lies your gift. Because even if it's true the vast majority of blogs would not be missed by more than a handful of people were the earth to open up and swallow them, and even if the best are still no substitute for the sustained attention of literary or journalistic works, it's also true that sustained attention is not what Web logs are about anyway. At their most interesting they embody something that exceeds attention, and transforms it: They are constructed from and pay implicit tribute to a peculiarly contemporary sort of wonder.

...[T]he Web log reflects our own attempts to assimilate the glut of immaterial data loosed upon us by the "discovery" of the networked world. And there are surely lessons for us in the parallel. For just as the cabinet of wonders took centuries to evolve into the more orderly, logically crystalline museum, so it may be a while before the chaos of the Web submits to any very tidy scheme of organization.”

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