Almighty Link

These are links to select web pages recently bookmarked by members of my delicious.com network — and some opportunities inspired by those pages. Read the posts and then share them on Twitter by clicking on the “tweet” links:

• Why won’t news sites link? (from martinstabe) – Tim Windsor uses one story to show how news articles often fail to include links. Opportunity: Propose a linking policy for your newsroom. [read and tweet]
• How to give value even to the expert reader when rehashing an old story (from martinstabe) – Kristine Lowe calls “this practice of omitting links to sources comes across as increasingly bizarre and dishonest.” Opportunity: Don’t be perceived as dishonest; link to you sources and/or start a conversation to make source-linking policy at your organization. [read and tweet]
• How Semacode Works, Why It’s Important for News Organizations (from ksablan) – Barbara Iverson describes visually-encrypted “URL grids” that can be photographed and used to navigate to web pages. Opportunity: As Iverson suggests, create a visual tag and play with it now “to gain the understanding you’ll need to make it work for you later.” [read and tweet]
• Talk to The Times: Martin A. Nisenholtz (from jlinabary) – Three of the questions readers asked The Times on Friday mentioned ideas about linking. Opportunity: Follow this series of question and answers to read about the concerns of online news readers and how The Gray Lady is addressing them. [read and tweet]