Friday, March 31, 2006

link exchanges

Linking policy:

• I do not link to everyone. I think it’s a waste of space.
• I don’t “trade links”. I will link to you if I think you’re awesome. I will never (and have never) asked for a reciprocal link, because I want you to link to me only if you like what I do.
• I do not link to brand-new blogs from brand-new bloggers. Please develop a reputation for providing content on a reliable basis first.  Otherwise I’m wasting space that could help someone who really works at it. (If you’re a blogger I know with a new property, that’s different.)
• With very few exceptions (I know you personally or you are doing something super-awesome) I don’t link to blogs on MLBlogs. I don’t do that because they don’t allow (or at least actively discourage) you to link to blogs outside of their platform. I don’t like censorship and I don’t like the heavy hand of MLB. There’s no excuse to blog on their platform when you can have a Blogger blog in 5 minutes.
• I’m really picky about the Mets blogs I link to. The bar is really high. It seems like everyone’s trying to be Metsblog. We have one of those already. Do it different, better, funnier. I’m not linking to another general news site unless you are one of those things.
• I’m a bitchy feminist with no sense of humor. I don’t like Deadspin but I respect them. However, everyone who followed in their footsteps is nowhere near as good. If you do that kind of thing, we have absolutely nothing in common. I’m sure you have a huge readership, but I won’t link to anything that I think promotes racist or sexist speech. Of course you’re welcome to do whatever you want, I just won’t link to it.

By all means, drop me a note and let me know about your blog. But please don’t ask for a link, because it doesn’t work that way around here.