Re: [-empyre-] links

[parrishka <parrishka@sympatico.ca>]

helen varley jamieson wrote:

> >But you have no control over what's on the other
> >side of the link. They may change the content or
> >the design, they may block access with passwords,
> >they may disappear, you don't know.
> >
> >>They might disappear but that's OK, web links aren't stable
> >>- I don't expect for them to necessarily work for more than
> >>a few days.
> >
> >That may not be the expectation of someone visiting
> >your site. In the case of a weblog, with posts clearly
> >marked with a date, it may not matter much. But on an
> >institutional page you create months ago, broken links
> >may reflect badly on your work. Worse, what if that
> >humanitarian website you mentioned on your favorites
> >list is now showing Nazi messages? :-)
> >
>
> this discussion is about weblogs, not instituional sites. are weblogs there
> to meet the expectations of those who read/visit them? i don't think so.

oh oh oh....

this sounds suspiciously like, "I just blog/vog for myself. I don't do it to
please anybody but myself."

i just can't let that one go!
blogs (and i would assume it's the same with vogs) are totally about meeting the
expectations of those who read them.
Even if the only assumed reader is the author herself.
c'mon, be honest now.
haven't you ever in a blog/vog, or even print diary, thought as you've written,
"heh.. this is funny! i'm going to look back on this one day and be all entranced
with my own writing style!"

well, maybe that's just me.
but putting ego aside for the moment (as if one can), even the relatively benign
expectation of your future self as a reader has an impact on what you produce in a
blog/vog.

my blog writing changes quite dramatically as my community of readers changes.
i don't see this as a bad thing- it's just a thing, an unavoidable thing.

i do think about what i link to, and how that might reflect on me personally and
professionally.
my highschool students, for example, read my site.
and it wouldn't be hard for any of their parents to stumble across it.
i know that i take risks, and i weigh my words and links very carefully.

k.


> &
> i don't regard "control" over the content of a link as important - if at
> some point you discover it's broken or no longer appropriate, then you stop
> linking.
> h : )
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