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A Crash Course in Linking

March 23rd, 2009

I gave a quick presentation for the reporters of Birmingham Recycled today, highlighting the importance of linking.

Doing a presentation on something like this might seem like overkill. But the more I prepared for this presentation, the more I realised how important this actually is.

It might just be me, but I’m struggling to understand why so many mainstream news papers still don’t link to their sources. I see it day after day, newspapers ripping off twitter messages and giving no credit what so ever. I’m just thinking, who would ever want to work with an institution who consistently pass on other people’s work as their own?