The Doc Searls Weblog : Rotten Linkage

So I want to make my own position clear here:

Links are fundamental to writing and publishing on the Web.

Writing for the Web without linking is like eating without digesting. It's literary bulemia.

Disrespecting the links others have made to your work is irresponsible to their good intentions and disrespectful to your own authority as a source. It says fuck-you to the world and to your own ass.

Please not that the empahsis is Doc's and so's the bad language but that's OK since Doc is from New York!

What has brought this all about is the change to Dan Gillmor's e-Journal - see Dan's response at Silicon Valley | 02/09/2002 | More on Broken Links - that has 404ed everybody's links to his writings. No doubt there are few broken links like this in DJ.