On Linking to Primary Sources
Daring Fireball is always a good source of commentary and thought.
Gruber picked this gem from Via Michael Lopp. It’s a post from The Guardian’s Ben Goldacre.
On Linking to Primary Sources: "
Ben Goldacre:
But more than anything, because linking to sources is such an easy thing to do and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I’ve detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don’t link to primary sources, I just don’t trust you.
I know that my internal radar is always suspicious of blogs and news sites that don’t link. The Web = Links.