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In Defense of Links, Part Two: Money changes everything - by Scott Rosenberg

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 31, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 09:40
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Consider this sad fact: 15 years into the era of Web publishing, most print publications still don’t link at all from inside the text of their articles posted online. They began shoveling their print stories, sans links, into the content-management system way back when; today, they’re shoveling still.

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