New York Times : from Grey Lady to leech?

I refuse to give The New York Times the hard earned Google juice and page rank I have earned with my blogs. When I checked out their new design I noticed their "Most blogged" box linking to .... no blogs. Excuse me? How can you know it is most blogged if you don't show who is blogging to you in the first place?

Well, I'm glad I am not the only one who noticed.

[via New York Times faux "most blogged" list -- what a bunch of leeches. - The Jason Calacanis Weblog]:

Just when you think the NYT is starting to get it they create a "Most Blogged" list *without* the back up data of who's blogging the stories!!!

Come on NYT... would it kill you to link to a blog!??!?!?!

Let me get this straight: you'll mine the data from the blogosphere to make your list, but you won't reward the blogosphere by linking back?!?!?!

That makes you a bunch of leeches--you take but you give nothing.

You see, the more we link to them, the not only the more traffic the get, but the higher in Google ranking they will be. And that is worth money. A. LOT. OF. MONEY. Jason Calacanis knows this. That's why he calls them leeches.

So boo to them.

Washington Post, on the other hand ... Thanks to Technorati, they get my heart-felt, "Yeah!"

Sure, they effed up royally with Ben Domenech, but at least they acknowledge the existence of blogs ... most importantly my blogs.

Other blog friendly publications?

Gotham Gazette
Best online local publication ever.

The Observer
Thanks to Ben Smith, but of course.

The Daily News
My Freddy Ferrer thongs did it. And Ben Smith although the main online newspaper is on probation. You shall receive my public scorn if you don't show us more love.

Spiegel Online International Edition
They took one out of the WaPo rule book of blogs.

The Village Voice
Thanks to my being amother and liking sex. Booyah!

New York Press
First one to use us as a source, hell yeah!

AlterNet
When they describe anything I have written as a preamble to a new constitution, I listen.

NY Post?

Newsday?

The Sun?

Diario La Prensa?

YOU'RE ON PROBATION PEOPLE!

So how should you identify an article from The Grey dinosaur? Instead of using the nasty "rel=nofollow" rule, just do what The New York Times does : Mention the title of the article you are quoting and their author(s).

Or let's do it the new culturekitchen way. Just take our the "http://www" from the URL.

Boo New York Times, boo.

Bookmark/Search this post with:

| | | | |