There has been a lot of talks about the new linking pulicy of National
Public Radio:
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They announced that policy was originally intended to maintain NPR.s commitment
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Wired:
The fact that some folks still don't understand that if you don't want to be
linked you shouldn't be on the Web.
NPR, is one of the few radio stations I ever listen to while driving, and the
only station producing useful content (you may have seen some articles here regarding
their stuff). The new policy prevents webloggers put any link of any sort to
NPR web pages. The policy may have been in place as early as March 2002 or before,
but is just now facing the scrutiny of Web citizens as the number of links to NPR
grows through the bloggers community. On the other hand, Yahoo! and Google, two
of the most popular web portals use NPR material in their news pages, NPR's spokesmen
have said they have an underwriting relationship with Yahoo! but nothing was
said regarding the links coming from Google.
Who can monitor these links anyways? Do they have the resources to do that? A company
spending more than $122 million in 2000 and they want to dedicate resource to
monitor the links?!..
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