[backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Butterworth
http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/greedy-bbc-blocks-external-links/1478/ "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links In an outrageous act of selfishness and greed the BBC has decided to stop giving real links to the websites featured in the "Related Internet Links" section on the right hand

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Aleem B
Brian, http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/greedy-bbc-blocks-external-links/1478/ > > "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links > In an outrageous act of selfishness and greed the BBC > has > decided to stop giving real links to the websites featured in the "Related > Internet Links" secti

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Dan Brickley
Brian Butterworth wrote: http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/greedy-bbc-blocks-external-links/1478/ "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links In an outrageous act of selfishness and greed the BBC has decided to stop giving real links to the websites featured in the "Related Internet Li

RE: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Gavin Pearce
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 04 November 2008 10:32 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links" 2008/11/4 Gavin Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "I might be being a bit blond here, but why even the need to hav

RE: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Gavin Pearce
ernational Limited. Registered in England, company number 2079459. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 04 November 2008 10:12 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links" 2008/11

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Dan Brickley
Gavin Pearce wrote: ** Sorry I meant within the BBC related links section specifically. My bad for not making it clear. Exactly Brian, I think we are on the same page … my point is why does the BBC need to make use of JavaScript, or NoFollow tags for links to “key” sites related to the story

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Hannen
half Of Brian Butterworth > Sent: 04 November 2008 10:32 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links" > > > > 2008/11/4 Gavin Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "I might be being a bit blond here, but why

RE: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Gavin Pearce
rvices International Limited. Registered in England, company number 2079459. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Belam Sent: 04 November 2008 09:36 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Butterworth
011 | Fax: +44 (0) > 1344 427138 > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yahoo: pearce.gavin > http://www.tbs.uk.com > > TBS is a trading name of Technology Services International Limited. > Registered in England, company number 2079459. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Butterworth
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Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Martin Belam
I don't think it is "evil", and as I've pointed out on their blog and on Sphinn, since Patrick at Blogstorm himself applies "nofollow" to all outbound links it is a little rich to be complaining that the BBC doesn't provide 'trusted' links. Interesting point about how Google can be expected to run

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread Aleem B
0) >> 1344 427138 >> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yahoo: pearce.gavin >> *http://www.tbs.uk.com* >> >> >> *TBS is a trading name of Technology Services International Limited. >> Registered in England, company number 2079459.* >> >> >> >

RE: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-04 Thread John O'Donovan
e, London W12 7TS ::: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ::: http://www.bbc.co.uk -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Brickley Sent: 04 November 2008 11:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

RE: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-05 Thread Andrew Bowden
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth 2008/11/4 Aleem B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I keep thinking of using a bit of "onclick=..." with a

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
ited Kingdom >>> Direct: +44 (0) 1344 403488 | Office: +44 (0) 1344 306011 | Fax: +44 (0) >>> 1344 427138 >>> MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yahoo: pearce.gavin >>> *http://www.tbs.uk.com* >>> >>> >>> *TBS is a trading name of Technology Ser

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-05 Thread Aleem B
> FWIW, adding an onclick is not the preferred way of doing this. It's better >> to attach events to anchors during document.onload event. If anchors need to >> be filtered, dom/css classes can be used. > > > Sounds interesting, care to share a little more about this method? > > There are some good

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
Aleem, 2008/11/5 Aleem B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > FWIW, adding an onclick is not the preferred way of doing this. It's better >>> to attach events to anchors during document.onload event. If anchors need to >>> be filtered, dom/css classes can be used. >> >> >> Sounds interesting, care to share a

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-05 Thread Sam Mbale
Google has a number of AJAX APIs you can use in your web pages with no server side code, you need only include a single

RE: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-05 Thread
t: Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links" FWIW, adding an onclick is not the preferred way of doing this. It's better to attach events to anchors during document.onload event. If anchors need to be filtered, dom/css classes can be used. Sounds

Re: [backstage] "Greedy BBC Blocks External Links"

2008-11-05 Thread Brian Butterworth
More follow up on this one... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/nov/05/bbc-digitalmedia 2008/11/5 Sam Mbale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Google has a number of AJAX APIs you can use in your web pages with no > server side code, you need only include a single