Cross-linking and attribution are critical to conversation and social media

As one of the many, many bloggers who slog away everyday to bring not only news, but also insight and opinion to readers it bugs me when the huge news sites, don’t often link to us little guys.  No, we’re not always first, but like the advice I’ve been given in the past: “if you can’t be first, be smarter”.
Mathew Ingram discusses this issue going over Louis Gray’s post about Mashable not linking or giving quotation credits when due.  Mathew closed his post with the key point–small blogs can be “discovered” when they are given the acknowledgement and props they …read more