Who will link the linkers?
We also concluded our discussion about the Times archive, we found a good compromise, the archive will remain open to people who link from weblogs, but they will keep the toll booth up for others.
I'll be interested to hear more about this. How exactly will it be implemented? Off the top of my head, it sounds like checking to see if the referrer is registered with weblogs.com. I guess this is a good as an arbiter as any, though it raises gatekeeper issues I don't know that I'm entirely comfortable with. OTOH, since I am just speculating, i could be talking through my hat. I'll be interested to see how it shakes out.
Disclaimer: I was a NY Times employee, on the production side, from 1996-1999.
Comments
This does sort of seem like it would be asking for abuse...
Posted by: Luke | June 3, 2003 4:42 PM