No different with online/new media, blogs included. Reference the page with some keywords to describe it. Your choice to include other details such as the date of the post and/or who wrote it.

…..In the process, the front page of the Times’ site (on which paid advertisements appear) was bypassed, significantly diminishing the value of the site to potential advertisers. Finally, the judge stated that the headlines may be sufficiently long to have copyright protection, and therefore the copying of the headlines (and not necessarily the links) might be a violation of copyright law. (I hope this isn’t off topic, but I’m new to blogging (still using the free wordpress site) and I read something about deep linking that was disturbing. First of all, I love the mutual linking, as long as there is original copy leading to the links (SO many blogs just regurgitating other blogs post after post) but this is what I read, referring to a blogging war between 2 papers:

…..In the process, the front page of the Times’ site (on which paid advertisements appear) was bypassed, significantly diminishing the value of the site to potential advertisers. Finally, the judge stated that the headlines may be sufficiently long to have copyright protection, and therefore the copying of the headlines (and not necessarily the links) might be a violation of copyright law. (http://www.bitlaw.com/internet/linking.html#Passing)

I always “deep link” directly to the article I’m referencing to avoid reader frustration (and I don’t want my reader getting lost in someone else’s blog trying to find the article). Personally I hate being directed to a page which seems to have no relationship to the article I was reading.

Am I committing a revenue faux pas? Is any linkback better than no linkback? Must I link to the home page and not the referred article?

I always “deep link” directly to the article I’m referencing to avoid reader frustration (and I don’t want my reader getting lost in someone else’s blog trying to find the article). Personally I hate being directed to a page which seems to have no relationship to the article I was reading.

Am I committing a revenue faux pas? Blogs seem to carry the same ads from page to page so is this just a fight between old style news services? Is any linkback better than no linkback? Must I link to the home page and not the referred article?

Again, sorry if it’s off topic, but I thought about this with the previous article last week and forgot to post.

DAYUM!!

@Tiffany, it is difficult to fathom a web as anti-relational for the very word conjures up images of spiders traversing intricate systems of miniscule tubes, double pun intended.

One other thing. What I’m about to write has been discussed ad infinitum here, there, and everywhere, but it is very frustrating to engage people in conversation when they don’t use names. I respect that earlier commenters “Ultimate Blogging Experiment” and “PR NY” want to further their brand (and I enjoyed reading what they wrote) but how can one nurture a relationship with a series of words or acronyms and not a Tom, Dick, or Harry? If you don’t want to use your real name, at least go anonymous and make up a name to make this relationship more personal and to give more of an incentive to see the web beyond the person.

Oh, and Kathi, I love your grammar critique but you realize “y’know” is not a word either?

I got into blogging because of the two-way communication it offered between writer and reader, which was much better than the pontification you get with an email newsletter.

But so far, I’ve found that while I’m getting the traffic, no-one’s talking back to me , despite every inducement I can think of to open up the conversation.

Yes, blogging has changed.

But everything evolves.

Just my thoughts…

As i am a starter blogger I need links for my blog and spread it to blog sphere. For this i feel fellow bloggers are best choice.

For me anyway, that’s one of the most rewarding aspects of blogging – knowing that others are reading your things, enjoying and dicsussing them with you!

One of my main messages and purposes in blogging is to talk about the power of relationships, and I think blogging and social media has such great potentital to be transformational, life-changing, inspirational, and most of that comes through relationships.

When I think of any of my hallmarks in blogging over the past year, I think of people I’ve met, conversations I’ve been a part of, the expansion of my horizons. And you better bet, none of that is in a vaccum! It all centers directly on reationships

The other thing is, the web is a very lonely place if it’s anti-relational.

It’s interesting you mention the idea of community. Is an over-emphasis of too many social media tools partially to blame for the decline in relational blogging? I’m not sure overall, but whe nI look at my own time online, I spend less of it at my RSS reader clicking out to comment on great posts than I used to.

I’ve had good experiences interacting with my “competitors.”

Bloggers who remain insular and suspicious are missing the boat. In my opinion, they are the ones that get discouraged and give up after a short while.

For me blogging is relational and social. It allows me to cut through all the nonsense and get right to the point. Competition? Some bloggers like Steve Pavlina don’t link out and are not social or relational with the communities they created. That is what I love about your site. You embrace the community you created.

Look at how much status being listed on Technorati and Techme has given those popular blogs and bloggers