Comments on: Why Old Media Still Don’t Get It (Even When They Kinda, Sorta Do!) http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/435 Building Better Web Sites Together, For A Better World Fri, 16 May 2008 20:50:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: AbleReach http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/435#comment-101360 AbleReach Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:40:01 +0000 http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/435#comment-101360 Even links to topically relevant articles by the same paper would help. Also, I wonder if fact-checkers could go a little bonkers over links leading to resources over which a newspaper has no control. Even links to topically relevant articles by the same paper would help.

Also, I wonder if fact-checkers could go a little bonkers over links leading to resources over which a newspaper has no control.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/435#comment-101359 Michael Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:22:14 +0000 http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/435#comment-101359 The problem really is money. The journalists aren't incentivised to learn, and the papers don't want them to, because they don't want to lose the traffic. Which is sad, because links would be good for all concerned, and might help save newspapers, longer term. The problem really is money. The journalists aren’t incentivised to learn, and the papers don’t want them to, because they don’t want to lose the traffic.

Which is sad, because links would be good for all concerned, and might help save newspapers, longer term.

]]> By: AbleReach http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/435#comment-101313 AbleReach Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:16:13 +0000 http://blog.cre8asite.net/archives/435#comment-101313 "A written conversation requires links to what you are responding to in order to be, well, a conversation." Good point. Links are a world-changer. I think that links were first explained to me in 1991, because I at the time I was lusting over the brand new 14440 baud modem. :) The example given was that a scientist at CERN in Europe could publish a paper online and add a "live" link to a reference by a scientist across the world, as long as the other paper was also online. Astounding. I looked at the screen, slackjawed, tears in my eyes, and thought of having watched the Berlin Wall fall on TV. The Wall fell in 1989. Sometimes, for a surprisingly long time, you can know things in your heart without knowing them in daily life, & vice versa. Maybe that's where old media is with links. I don't see links in most newspaper "blog" articles. I wonder what percentage of high school kids can fix a broken link? Or if the majority of journalists can make and fix links? You know they have some Internet research techniques under their belts, but how close are they to linking to references? “A written conversation requires links to what you are responding to in order to be, well, a conversation.”

Good point. Links are a world-changer.

I think that links were first explained to me in 1991, because I at the time I was lusting over the brand new 14440 baud modem. :)

The example given was that a scientist at CERN in Europe could publish a paper online and add a “live” link to a reference by a scientist across the world, as long as the other paper was also online. Astounding. I looked at the screen, slackjawed, tears in my eyes, and thought of having watched the Berlin Wall fall on TV. The Wall fell in 1989.

Sometimes, for a surprisingly long time, you can know things in your heart without knowing them in daily life, & vice versa. Maybe that’s where old media is with links. I don’t see links in most newspaper “blog” articles.

I wonder what percentage of high school kids can fix a broken link? Or if the majority of journalists can make and fix links? You know they have some Internet research techniques under their belts, but how close are they to linking to references?

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