cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by vistamommy A few clicks back I coined the made up term “linktribution” to represent the recommended way of thanking someone for use of their open licensed content by linking back to the original. It is the least one can do, eh? Sadly it does not happen nearly enough, note this article on Psychology Today — not only does it have an image (probably not licensed from the movie Stand By Me as this TinEye search reveals for the image), it just sits there w/o out any kind of attribution at all. But I go off track. Doing a link back, again, is the base minimum that one ought to to, but there is no reason not to go a step farther. I cannot seem to locate it in my blog (uh oh), but I remember writing once about the phenomena of [...]
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Linktributions Ahoy?
Linktributions Ahoy? by cogdogblog posted 21 Oct ’08, 5.27pm MDT PST on flickr Are more people using "my made-up term? Will it some-day make it as a Word of the Year? (hah, down ego, down….) I got a nice little tweet from @eemann who discovered linktribution and Google now finds about 1400 instances– though I am sure about 800 are from my own blog, and another 580 are from people’s blogs where my trackbacks have landed there, but that leaves maybe 20 people who picked it up. Long-tail meme? I still assert the power of the simple mighty tiny link. Likewise, I am franchising out to twitterbution given a twitter shout out and/or a link to a tweet-status when someone gives you something worthy via twitter. Already has 34 of them! Or is it thanking them via twitter? I dunno. Send your link love today. Everyone loves inbound links, so [...]
