On missing the whole point: I haven’t read Rebecca Blood’s book, nor do I intend to. I keep hearing that all of the books about weblogs are missing the point. I used to take it for granted, now I understand. I have a problem with something: Jargon while describing weblogs. The whole point of weblogs is allowing many people to distribute their ideas, issues, thoughts, links, and writing. Using jargon is an elitist cop out. It’s bullshit. Weblogs are by their very nature open, why close them down and shrowd them in a cloack of mystery?
I don’t get it. Via workbench:
In The Weblog Handbook, Rebecca Blood uses a term frequently that I haven’t seen employed before: linktext, the words used to describe and provide context for a link. Example: “Composing linktext has given me practice in thinking through a subject by writing it down.”
The person who appears to have coined and popularized the term is Jorn Barger, publisher of Robot Wisdom. He defines linktext as all of the text used to describe a link, even if some of it is not included in a link, and calls the actual text of a link anchortext.