From James Sisk comes the following call to action:

I just finished reading up on the most recent linking case in the Danish courts, and came upon an idea I’d like your feedback on, (and possibly you help spreading). The basic idea is this: although there are many out there who would like to control who does and does not link to there sites, even the biggest of the big shots need use more then we need them. So. Any organization that restricts free linking gets “blackblogged” ( I want credit for this term). If you don’t let everyone link freely to your site, then none of us will link to you at all. Imagine if Google said, due to the restrictive policies of the church of Scientology, Google does not list links to their sites. Even if the Googles and Yahoos didn’t buy in, the risk of damage from losing the links they like, would almost certainly force a higher level of tolerance for the ones they don’t.

James Sisk
Senior Instructional Designer

Epic Learning

Good idea, but since this won’t happen only on blogs, maybe it should be “de-linking” or “a-linking.” “Hypolinking”? “Hacksawing” (to cut the links)? Or the old word for this: “shunning.” “Connect-shun”?

Of course, when it comes to the search engines, it would be a clear case of “ind-excommunication.”

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