Blogcritics Comments on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Comment by Suzan on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:13:19 EDT

What is the song Fat Slut about?

Comment by Al Barger on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Fri, 4 May 2007 17:53:52 EDT

Brother Olsen- Thank you for that clarification and amplification. I try to provide useful value in links to any website. Mr Brewster is either practicing for a law degree with his curious hata's antipathy to links in my story, or he's really not got much to do with his time. Since he's so interested in requiring justification of my links, I'll note that each of the photos link to artist archives. The Warren Zevon section includes several essays and 100 photos. The Tori Amos link includes three essays and 50 photos. The Elvis Costello link will get you two dozen+ essays and about 200 photos. And thanks for asking.

Comment by Mat Brewster on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Fri, 4 May 2007 15:42:40 EDT

I'm confused on the policy then. It explicitly states that linking directly back to your blog in the article content is verboten. It also states that more than three links in the author bio is forbidden. Yet Al routinely breaks these rules and gets away with it. My problem isn't so much with the links, but that certain people seem to be able to break them and nothing is said or done about it. I realize there is a difference in linking back to your blog blindly, and linking to something quasi-relevant to the article at hand, but this difference is not stated in the policy.

Comment by Eric Olsen on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Fri, 4 May 2007 14:25:40 EDT

The policy is against gratuitous self-linking and promotion - the issue is balance and reasonableness. Every writer is promoting him/herself with every article they write for BC. Please recall that every story has two automatic links links back to the writer's site, plus however many links they put in their author's bio - so in Al's case there are 7 links back to his site in every article. He is hardly link deprived. I would say, though, that if a writer hosts pics on his/her own site, there is certainly nothing wrong with linking the pics back to the site - such as a a pic hosting site as Flickr requires. In addition, readers interested in these artists may very well be interested in Al's galleries of those artists, further justifying the pic links.

Comment by Tom Johnson on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Fri, 4 May 2007 12:36:07 EDT

"Self-promotion and links to one's own site(s) is not allowed." -Blogcritics Policy Um, what the hell is the point of Blogcritics if we aren't allowed to point to things on our own blogs? That might just be one of the dumbest rules I've seen on BC.

Comment by Al Barger on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Thu, 3 May 2007 11:07:47 EDT

Dear Mat- I've got a big site with a lot of relevant stuff. Folks interested in Tori Amos, for example, might likely be interested in my related essays and photo galleries. On the other hand, some punk ass hata with no website that anyone would give a rat's ass about probably should not be wasting time and server space with the keystrokes to put in worthless links - or stories, for that matter.

Comment by Mat Brewster on New Album Releases, 5-1-2007: Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Warren Zevon, Rush

Thu, 3 May 2007 10:42:48 EDT

"Self-promotion and links to one's own site(s) is not allowed." -Blogcritics Policy Glad to see everybody follows the rules.