Com, I contribute regularly to such publications as Net Marketing , Boardwatch , Datamation and Atlanta Computer Currents . And we want your feedback as well, always. We're still looking for an advertiser to defray our higher costs. Businesspeople of all sorts see links mainly as a way to drive traffic in or out of a site. This is incredibly Clueless.
Links are references, or footnotes, they're short cuts.
Let me cite just one example of how fools lose their way by mistaking the nature of links. It took me 50 seconds to reach NetMind through Yahoo, even though Yahoo hadn't yet indexed the company. Obviously a mere list of home pages is a waste of a user's time at this point, but I get incredible value from Newslinx , a service that lists the day's Internet news stories and saves me hours per week in research time. Certainly I don't begrudge them the ad avails in return, and neither should the news sites, since I'm getting more value from their work as a result, too. So I came up with this Clue.