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according to NPR's existing policy by sydlexic · 2002-06-22 04:37 · Score: 0, Troll · on NPR Reconsiders Linking Policy

you are violating it by linking to their site in the story. what beautiful irony.

Re:Ah, and we'll make it better by zoombat · 2002-06-20 02:31 · Score: 1 · on Blogspace vs. NPR

Yeah, that will take you to their front page, but if you wanted to listen to field recordings of North American frog sounds, wouldn't it make more sense to start looking for that on search engines or frog sites or nature sites, which might in turn take you to NPR's web site? What would lead you to NPR specifically? Nothing much at all, and that's the whole point of the structure of the web: it allows easy cross-site linking to interesting content.

Consequences? by jackbang · 2002-06-19 14:33 · Score: 1 · on Blogspace vs. NPR

What happens if I ignore their linking policy? More importantly, if I post a link on Slashdot, will Slashdot suffer the unnamed consequences, or will I? What if I'm an Anonymous Coward?

If this becomes a trend and begins to be followed up with legal action, will any site that allows the posting of user content be forced to strip out any links in that content for fear of being subject to the linking policies of other sites?

Form letter to email to NPR's ombudsman by surfimp · 2002-06-19 09:32 · Score: 1 · on Blogspace vs. NPR

Copy & paste, modify to suite, and send to:
ombudsman@npr.org

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To whom it may concern-

As a frequent contributor to my local NPR station and a web developer, I find your Linking Policy as expressed on this page (http://www.npr.org/about/linking_form.html) to be offensive to my intelligence and to the foundational principles upon which the Internet has been built.

The entire idea behind Hypertext is that a document can be linked to other documents containing similar or beneficially-related information. As I'm sure you will agree, the NPR website contains a wealth of information on current world and national events, politics, and culture (among many other things). I would think that NPR would want as many people possible to be exposed to this content, for if NPR doesn't put the content online for it to be read/downloaded, why do they have a website at all?

When someone links to a website, that website is effectively receiving both FREE advertising and site traffic. In addition, having numerous links to a website can provide said website with a higher ranking in many popular search engines (Google comes to mind). Almost all websites strive to increase their site traffic and search engine ranking. Why any organization would seek to turn the same away is literally beyond my comprehension.

By placing content online, you implicitly agree to have others view/download--and LINK TO--that content. If you do not wish for that content to be viewed/downloaded, then that content should not be placed online. While I certainly don't advocate the practice of framing page content, I feel that linking to ANY website, once it has been placed on the public Internet, is the fundamental right of any web publisher.

As a contributor to NPR and a taxpaying citizen of the United States of America, I am one of the people ultimately responsible for keeping NPR on the air and online. I demand that you change this Linking Policy immediately, and until such change has occurred I will forego any further contributions to NPR.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME HERE
YOUR ADDRESS IF YOU LIKE

you guys are misunderstanding all of this by CathedralRulz · 2002-06-19 08:59 · Score: 1 · on Blogspace vs. NPR

They aren't talking about linking to a PAGE on NPR, they are talking about linking to an image hosted on NPR and stuff like that. For example, I can do this without any trouble.

Re:Well, part of the reason... by stephanruby · 2002-06-19 08:27 · Score: 1 · on Blogspace vs. NPR

The majority of their money comes from contributions and the "funded-by" bites.

I can't believe this troll got modded up. Here is the real story, right from the horse's mouth.

"NPR is funded primarily by a single source: fees paid to NPR by public radio stations (almost 700 of them) for the right to broadcast particular NPR programs. These program fees account for slightly more than 50 percent of the annual budget, which for 2000, was just over $100 million. This is the largest single source of money for NPR and it comes overwhelmingly from the stations and their listeners."
Jeffrey Dvorkin -- ombudsman@npr.org
http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/011228.html

NPR government funded? Just a little by yack0 · 2002-06-19 08:04 · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Blogspace vs. NPR

According to their page, which I link to against their policy and specifically make an html post to do so, financials:

The only direct government funding NPR receives is through competitive grants from government agencies for specific projects. Such grants are awarded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, and typically represent only 2% of total revenues.

So, they get grants and some money from NSF and NEA, but it's a drop in the bucket. Most of their revenue is program fees, corporate sponsorships and endowment type money.

For all their talkign about the NSF and NEA on the credits, you'd think they had received more. So, when will they get a grant from the Free Software Foundation for clueful use of the world wide web?

No linking or framing? by tuxlove · 2002-06-19 07:49 · Score: 2 · on Blogspace vs. NPR

I wonder what these bozos think about "Ask Jeeves", which frames every site it links to? My guess is that some Internet-illiterate management-type person at NPR wrote this policy after experiencing net plagiarism or something. That still does not excuse them however.