Saturday, May 04, 2002

Via Wood s Lot:   No such thing as "deep linking" comment posted by "Amused" at Library and Information Science News Librarians, researchers - anyone - needs to be able to link to be able to access information where it actually exists. It is not acceptable in scholarly communities to make general citations (e.g. "as so-and-so says somewhere in her book..."): citations must be precise, and, where electronic resources are concerned, precise equals the actual URL of a resource. (...) If a web site owner really does not want anyone linking to a resource, don't put it on the web to begin with. And if you're only worried about making money instead of providing some good information, you probably shouldn't be in the information providing business anyway. Take an Internet refresher course and learn again what the Internet and World Wide Web are all about. Mikelog As has been widely reported, the publishers of DallasNews.com seem to need a smack with the clue-stick. Check out 4B: "If you operate a Web site and wish to link to this Site, you may link only to the home page of the Site and not to any other page or subdomain of us." Uh, sorry, but which page I link to on the open internet is my business, not yours. If you don't want links to your content, don't put it on the internet. And if you can't figure out a way to make money off putting material on the open internet, that's your problem. Deal with it. 11:41:54 PM     A comic worth watching, finally Spider-Man succeeds because Sam Raimi understands that superhero flicks are essentially stories of metamorphosis, and only inessentially stories of Good vs. Evil and derring do. Tim Burton could learn a good deal. New York works in a dual role as the place it is, and as a splendid monkey-bar set. Interesting how newspapers often have key roles in superhero flicks, usually doing yeoman's service as uncomprehending, venal organs deserving of nothing but ridicule. 8:32:33 PM

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