(Greensboro, NC) What is wrong with this picture? News & Record editor Doug Clark writes a blog post about a story that ran in the News & Record. The News & Record website prohibits links to the story so he must link to it at another media outlet's web site.
I know it has only been about fifteen years since this Word Wide Web thing took hold, but if a publisher is still allowing his enterprise to run into these dead ends, isn't it about time for him to retire?
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NR's linking policy seems a bit absurd. They want to be apart of the "blogging community" yet, they're not offering anything. If they want to be proactive they should take a stance like the BBC has abroad and link to anything and everything local in order to help the area prosper.
By not publishing LINKS the Greensboro News & Record maintains control of dam-aging information. Because I could not attach my URLs, the N&R has kept citizens from seeing the Greensboro water sales chart that contradicts the argument it made for the Randleman Dam.
To be clear, this is not another observation of the N&R's limited use of outbound links, it is a consequence of their new "e-reader" which does not provide links to stories within it -- thus Doug Clark's dilemma.
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