FIGHTING LINKROT

James Joyner · Monday, November 17, 2003 · 1 Comment

Kevin Drum has detailed instructions for creating permanent links in blogs for NYT stories, which otherwise disappear into the archives in a few days.

An alternative is to simply excerpt liberally, although the copyright implications of that technique are a bit fuzzy (to me, anyway).

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Monday, November 17, 2003 at 16:00

Linking the New York Times
I might start reading the New York Times more frequently again. I had put them way down my list many months ago when they started breaking links to their articles. Now, new to me, but apparently circulating in some circles since last June is a method f…

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