The Editor

I see dead links.

They don’t know they’re dead.

Those don’t worry me so much. The ones that worry me are the live links, that don’t know what they are. Is it a blog? Is it an e-zine?

The rules are not hard and fast, but there are some pretty big differences. A mailing list is not a zine, it’s a mailing list. A yahoo! group isn’t a zine. It’s a group. A zine is a periodical, something that’s available in final format after you get done with it. It’s a magazine, available online. I’m always blown away by the creativity and unique nature of the genuine zines out there. I despair quietly as i travel through the list of dead links, the ones who don’t know that they’re dead, and find living links that don’t know what they are either.

With that in mind, we already have a section for blogs, and i can’t encourage people to use it enough. We are changing the format of my side to make it easier for me to reclassify items- as well as instituting a ‘random check’ system that will automatically queue up a certain number of links for me to check the classification of. It will also come up as a category (not yet, but soon, that’s Dave’s department) when you report a link, allowing you to flag a link for reclassification. You’ll have to tell me the discrepancy and why you see it there, but it will let you flag it as something other than a dead link. I’m asking you to please hold off on reporting misclassified links for a few days so that i can catch up and we can get the proper reporting system in place.

But… man, you folks are creative. Keep adding your links!