A couple months ago I installed a plugin on the blog that meant search engines would index links in comments: by default WordPress uses ‘nofollow‘ on comments to stop spammers abusing them to boost search engine rankings, but that prevents genuine commenters getting credit for their contributions. One problem: as one commenter pointed out, the blog as a whole was
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Posted by Paul Bradshaw on Nov 11, 2008
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online journalism • Tags: accessibility, Andy Dickinson, BBC, comments, dofollow, Gavin Wray, intensedebate, javascript, malcolm coles, Meta element, meta tags, nofollow, plugin, Search engine optimization, wordpress • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post
Presentation: Law for bloggers and journalists (UK)
Yesterday I hosted a session on law for my MA Online Journalism students, which I thought I would embed below. Some background: I teach all my sessions in a coffee shop in central Birmingham – anyone can drop in. This week I specifically invited local bloggers, and so the shape of the presentation was very much flavoured by contributions from The
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online journalism • Tags: absolute privilege, birmingham, Birmingham Post Marc Reeves, classes, copyright, data protection, defamation, fair comment, Gavin Wray, Hannah Waldram, law, lessons, libel, ma online journalism, marc reeves, Matthew Mark, Mike Rawlins, Nick Booth, Nicky Getgood, online journalism students, online publishing, Philip John, presentation, privacy, qualified privilege, reynolds privilege • Comment feed RSS 2.0 - Read this post