Tuesday, January 25, 2005

CNET: All Glory No Guts

CNet announced that it's providing TrackBack support for all of it's news stories now. However, they didn't say anything about linking to relevant sites from within their stories. So they want to get the glory and allow folks to see who's linking to their stories [like bloggers do] but they don't want to show their guts and link to the people and subjects found in their stories. Just another way blogs are being wrecked by mass media. I wish the media outlets would just stick to what they do well [reporting & writing] and let bloggers do what they do well [opinions & commentary].

The only thing this will accomplish is identifying CNet as a site that's worth spamming. They're not even using the nofollow attribute in the links they post on the trackback url. I predict it will take about 5 days before every story on CNet has trackbacks to sites with unrelated content. It's gonna backfire, mark my words.

I'm giving CNET a "nofollow" link for that garbage. Cyberjournalist will get some PageRank though :)
via cyberjournalist

By Jason Dowdell at 10:55 AM | Comments (0)

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