Discouraging People from Reading Your Website
Fast Company's new website
linking policy [scroll down to "Web Links" section) highlights how brain-damaged many otherwise smart, new-economy operations are when it comes to intellectual property:
Due to the large volume of requests we receive, we do not have a reciprocal linking program. However, if you like, you may link to us at no cost. This option requires the execution by you and Fastcompany.com of a one-page Web-linking agreement. Please download and sign the agreement and fax it to 617-738-5055, attn: G+J legal, Fastcompany.com. As soon as you receive back the agreement signed on behalf of Fastcompany.com, you may begin linking to our content.
Why should a publication make it difficult for other people to talk about--to
actively refer people to its own publication? Fast Company, a publication that is all about the flow of information being crucial to information economies, want to make people leap through hoops in order to help FC move information. Even from a market (rather than open source) model, sending web readers to FC's websites is always a good thing.
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Posted by johndan at June 27, 2004 01:30 AM
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