Digital Parsimony

I really dislike it when all the links within Engadget’s (or Gizmodo’s) posts just point to tags within their site and when it’s difficult to find the source information. Engadget and Gizmodo publish a lot of good content, but also make unoriginal material appear a bit like their own, which isn’t fair to the original publisher.

Jason Snell points to this Engadget post, which is entirely based on this source material from Consumer Reports, but which Engadget only links to at the very end, using black text with no underline, obscuring that it’s even a link unless you hover over the text. Dirtbag move.

UPDATE:: They’ve changed the link color.

via Daring Fireball Linked List: Blogging Worst Practices: Obscuring the Source Link.