Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Wired News May 14 article by Declan McCullagh mentions several professional publishers of newspapers and magazines seeking to block deep links by non-commercial hobbyist websites, even though a US Federal Judge ruled in 2000 that hyperlinking is not a violation of copyright.  It is analogous to using a library's card index to faster and more efficiently reference particular items.  The library is not violating the copyright of the books that are being linked to, by using the card index.  According to Wired, The Judge said that deep linking is not illegal (in the USA) as long as it's clear whom the linked page belongs to. Wired News Dec 6 last year by Fargad Manjoo explains KPMG's opposition to hyperlinking to their site without their permission, much like the NPR situation. 1:06:05 PM

My last post now goes blue instead of letting me edit it.  This happens from time to time.  Something else for me to figure out some time. Public Controversy over National Public Radio linking policies, seeking to ban other people from linking to NPR, without prior written consent, apparently grew thanks to Cory Doctorow discussing this issue on his BoingBoing Blog, A Directory of Wonderful things. NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey A. Dvorkin replied to this Netiquette Controversy. (I did not yet fill out the NPR permission form).  Thanks to feedback from bloggers, NPR has changed their policy. David Rothman defined the word blogger, which was previously unclear to the NPR Ombudsman, and perhaps to other people also, but I have not found the explicit definition, except in context. 12:24:15 PM

July 16 issue of Search Day has more on the Deep Linking controversy out of Denmark, which I introduced 2002-07-10 Wednesday.  Two lawyers get into a debate over what is becoming more obvious to me is related to copyright fair use. When do we need explicit permission to link to someone's web site? Is "Don't link without our express permission." legally binding? Is linking an implicit agreement to a contract with "terms of permission"? For the answers to these questions, read the latest Search Day debate.  Not as clear as I would like it to be.  Additional relevant links include: Controversy over the linking policy of National Public Radio. 11:58:14 AM

With Blogs worth revisiting I think I am beginning to "get it" on how to link to my past posts.  Several people and several documents had told me the same theoretical stuff, but it takes a bit of learning by doing, exploring Radio, often doing wrong, to finally "get it".  I am still a bit of a novice learning Radio. I keyed the Blogs worth revisiting story, and posted it, then saw something more I wanted to add, so selected the button to Edit my work, and I got a blank screen. Panic.  Back button.  It is still there.  Try again, another blank screen.  By experimentation I found that what works is to go to Stories on top menu bar, select the story I want to edit, then the edit button works, the first time.  If I want to edit some more, go via Stories menu.  That works. Thanks also someone for telling me about F5.  I not remember who told me, or what document ... I have looked at several Radio Tutorials in the last few days.  Basically when I have one Browser window open at my public site, and another open to the editing, which is being upstreamed to the public site, F5 is needed at the public site to refresh the picture to see my latest input.  11:47:08 AM

Here I try to figure out how to cross-link my posts, so that I can do that with posts on the same subject.  I was contemplating a story for each subject that I get into, that would have links to all the posts mentioning it, to help in future mentions. With Radio there are many different kinds of links that I want to learn how to do, and also learn the correct terminology for them all.  Newbies see something we want to do, but we not know what it called, so we dither all over the place trying to describe it, and of course search engines not much help for the right documentation because we not know the right terminology yet. Jan Karlsbjerg of http://www.karlsbjerg.net/blog/ reminded me that if I have one Windoze Browser window open on my public site, and another open on my private editing of my weblog, QUOTE   So if you want to refer to all your posts for Wednesday, July 10, 2002, you go to your public website (http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/), find the date in question, hover the mouse over the day-anchor, right-click (I'm assuming you're running Windows here) and from the menu that springs up you select "Copy Shortcut". You now have the shortcut to your posts for that day, and you can insert them into your own writing (see "Copy and Paste URLs" above). Same thing for specific post-anchors, except steal the link from the #-sign for the post. UNQUOTE   So I did that and here is what I get for my link to my Wednesday, July 10 posts.   I am obviously not quite yet "getting it", so I need to do some more studying of Copy and Paste URLs: http://radio.weblogs.com/0100059/stories/2002/04/12/copyAndPasteUrls.html   10:42:22 AM

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