Big gadget sites don’t link to blogs (I went overboard, read updates)

Engadget had deleted my comment which referred to the same article appearing in Gizmodo. The comment was deleted. I submitted another comment asking why it was deleted. This comment got deleted too.
I understand that it was money for them and they were running a business and all that. I just lost interest after that.
I don’t think I’ve commented there ever since. This was like a year and half ago.

Yuvi,
I agree with Robert, the analysis that you did on Scoble’s blog covers all the primaries. If you would use that as a standard for blog analysis, you would be able to do comparison across sites.

I would still like to see something on the comments to his posts

Guy

Scoble stirring the pot, eh?

You are kind of wrong on the New York Times not linking to blogs unless you mean inline comments (?), yes/no?

They linked to one of my posts recently from their business section. Admittedly this linking is rare, but they do link to blogs.

And my contact with the writer of the piece told me that’s he’s been working on them to make the links inline instead of in the sidebar for the last year. Progress with MSM takes time.

Engadget has linked to my gadget site at:
http://www.svartlinks.com/ , but Gizmodo have never linked. But I think they would if they find something interesting
Maybe your video clip isn’t interesting enough? They usually don’t post about video clips.
And personally I don’t want them to do that either. There are too much sites posting links to Youtube video clips already….

I think all news sites on the net should be featuring trackbacks by now, telling who’s linking to who. Isn’t that what Web 2.0 is all about? And if I re-report a story, I ALWAYS put the series of people who reported it first (my sources).

We have a blog that is in the same space as a major Weblogs, Inc., blog. We often used to break stories and do not get linked to. The way we have handled it is:

(1) Send friendly e-mail announcements of major stories to go up in the next hour or so directly to one of the Weblogs, Inc., bloggers. This functions as a sort of “we’re watching you” notice, without being obnoxious or burning our bridges. If that blogger ever screws us, we switch our announcements to another one.

(2) Make sure we are the source to go to — our coverage needs to have some exclusive aspect to it, or we really can’t blame anyone for not linking to us. This usually involves turning off the computer and getting on the telephone, something bloggers seem to have forgotten how to do.

Still, their tiny “Link” at the bottom doesn’t bring in a lot of traffic, and they don’t seem to like linking from inside the story, unless it’s to AOL.

Rock and Roll…the back an forth, he said – he said, nature of this post is the most entertaining thing I have seen on a blog in a long time. By the time I reached comment #75 I no longer understood the issue at hand, nor do I even care. I just think it is cool that A-List bloggers can have such a nasty pulbic exchange (aka pissing match). If this was Hollywood they would drag Shannon Daugherty out to throw a drink in someone’s face.

I think you will set a record for number of comments in a week.

Robert,

Come in off the ledge on this one. Let these comments trickle off on this one. Only thse who risk going too far will know how far one can go. You blew this one. You apologized. Get on to a new subject.

Wow. You win the Biggest Douche of the Week award, and it’s still Monday.

matto: I won that award on Saturday. So, I guess I’m winning it two weeks in a row! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

You got paid to shoot the video for Intel did you not?