{"id":1526,"date":"2003-10-03T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2003-10-03T17:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/03\/the-rule-of-links\/"},"modified":"2003-10-03T13:40:06","modified_gmt":"2003-10-03T17:40:06","slug":"the-rule-of-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/03\/the-rule-of-links\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rule of Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The list
\n of amazing essays<\/a> going up in anticipation of BloggerCon <\/a>has
\n grown again with the addition of Dave Winer’s The
\n Rule of Links<\/a> and The
\n Rule of Win-Win<\/a>. The ideas therein are important and well-presented,
\n although personally, as soon as I hear a "Rule" formally proposed
\n or established I start thinking of creative ways to break it. But hey,
\n that’s just me.<\/p>\n

I especially like the "Rule
\n of Links<\/a>". In a very real sense links are at the heart of
\n weblogging, and the weblog phenomena itself can be seen as an inevitable
\n extension of the propagation of hyper-text. I think I am starting to get
\n the hang of it myself, although it is sometimes tricky knowing what needs
\n to be linked, and to what.<\/p>\n

But I question whether linking is an obligatory feature of anything that
\n can be called a weblog. What about the short, sweet and intensely insightful
\n postings of a wizened widowed grandmother tending an herb patch in Nova
\n Socia and reflecting on her storied past as a Be-Bop xylophonist in the
\n 40’s, the specific shade of blue in the early morning sky over Prince Edward
\n Island, and a childrens’ story she is writing for her grandchildren? She
\n posts everyday, early in the morning, as she waits for her herbal tea to
\n steep, and includes nary a link outside her own self-contained world. Is
\n she not a blogger? In some ways is she not the quintissential blogger?<\/p>\n

Are links really essential in EVERY blog?<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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