I have a bone to pick with bloggers. Bearing in mind that I don’t know everything, I ask you, is this good communication?
You’ll have to do some reading and thinking to discover that that doesn’t happen there, and that neither that or there was likely to interest you in the least.
It’s amazing how often I see it: a blog post whose whole function is to say ooh go look at this shit.
A link in a blog post should be an invitation to get more or different information, not a misdirection and a delay in place of any writing at all.
Here’s another example:
Oh holy crud, this just makes me sick.
What am I gonna go look at? Can I have a hint before I click?
Let us bear in mind, fellow citizens, that the purpose of blogging is communication. It’s not communication if I have no idea what I’m reading about until I go read something else.
Just my humble opinion! And I know I’ve done it too, and that I have a bad habit of fertilizing my own blogs with quotes. I offer a gentle constructive criticism. So please don’t get all you know.
i know, i’m guilty of it too. but i don’t think as much about it now that wordpress added that feature that shows a preview of your link in a popup window on mouseover… 🙂