Thursday, June 20, 2002

I am more skeptical, however. I love NPR too much and want to believe the best of them, esp "All Things Considered" and "Marketplace." Would be nice if they got their heads screwed on straight. In real life, I work for a large media outlet that remains a bit clueless about the Web as well. I wonder, is corporate Web cluelessness a virus that multiplies on its own?

Miasma <---signatory of the Cluetrain Manifesto

NPR Thinking Twice On Deep Linking Policy.

NPR Rethinking the Deep Link Rule

"A Wired News story by Farhad Manjoo chronicles the growing resentment against National Public Radio's linking policy, which requires permission for deep links.

NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin has just told me that the legal, news and Web side will reconsider the policy this afternoon--he himself will participate. I'll think good thoughts.

During our conversation, he asked some open-minded questions about the nature of deep linking, and I promised to use this blog to point him to background on the topic, including a Christian Science Monitor article on a Scottish linking feud between two newspapers.

Meanwhile people might want to hold off on the protest until they learn how the decision goes. You can use NPR's home page to stay updated....

Thought: Nina Totenberg should cover this controversy if it continues and maybe even if it stops. Just what will NRP's legal maven on the news side have to say?..." [TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home]

I haven't posted anything about this story until now because I figured the link request form was just an old page on their that they had forgotten about. So it was disturbing to read Jeffrey Dvorkin defend the policy in the Wired article, but the fact that they are meeting today to reconsider it is a good sign. I'm confident they'll reach a more informed decision this time around.

In parallel to the earlier story about the byline strike at the Providence Journal, it will be interesting to see if NPR notes the story and resolution on its home page. Check their Linking Policy page later today.

[The Shifted Librarian]
8:15:14 PM    

This is a link to Doc Searls's Blog on NPR's major gaffe. I'm going to link to every site I can find on this issue, and OF COURSE, I will include a link to NPR on every one!

Miasma

Passing the clue-by-four 
 Marek: Open Letter to NPR,ORG Regarding Link Permission policy.
 By the way, I've seen the automated e-response that goes out to those who write in to protest NPR's profanely clueless link permission form. It's actually worse than you'd expect. Boggles the mind.
 [Later... okay, Tom posted it. Scary, huh?]
 Hate to say it, but I rely less and less on NPR as a source of information. Same goes for the rest of radio and television. Yeah, for news and features, NPR still beats beat the shit out of everything else on the radio bands; but so what? There [Doc Searls Weblog]


7:41:13 PM    


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