Just doing a little research on linking in blogs. Came across this article and I thought I would share with the other newbs. theregister.co.uk/2005/01/31/link_spamer_interview/
It's got it all... quality info, strong metaphors, and wittily cloaked innuendos(albeit a little dated):
"Perhaps the affiliate system could be seen as a form of outsourcing: the top-level site gets lots of people competing to find the best way to get visitors to the site. Darwin would understand. Link spamming, with its abuse of common resources, turns out the most efficient, just as cutting down virgin Indonesian and Amazonian rain forest is the most efficient way for loggers their to get wood. If it raises the global temperature of the blogging community, well, that's life on planet internet, isn't it?"
It's got it all... quality info, strong metaphors, and wittily cloaked innuendos(albeit a little dated):
"Perhaps the affiliate system could be seen as a form of outsourcing: the top-level site gets lots of people competing to find the best way to get visitors to the site. Darwin would understand. Link spamming, with its abuse of common resources, turns out the most efficient, just as cutting down virgin Indonesian and Amazonian rain forest is the most efficient way for loggers their to get wood. If it raises the global temperature of the blogging community, well, that's life on planet internet, isn't it?"