when to post & when to linkout

[JosephMcArthur]

One putting together posts yesterday I started to consider when it made sense to linkout and when it made sense to repost openly licenced content.

In the end, I thought it made sense for things to be reposted when:

• the place we're linking to is a bad reading experience
• we control the place we're linking to
• we can add significant value in the repost (e.g adding an image)
• we only want a small part of a big piece

This can be closed when the instructions for editing have been updated & posts have been changed to follow this (right now I've just always linked out)

[rossmounce]

FWIW, my blog site is pretty awful these days, poor uptime, slow load AND there's no image with my post so I'd be delighted to have my content just copied over:
http://rossmounce.co.uk/2017/10/23/open-in-order-to-unleash-the-power-of-text-mining/

PS was there an 'embargo' on linking to openinorder.to ? Sorry if I broke that, few have visited my post so far anyhow and of those even less will have read to the end...

[JosephMcArthur]

Thanks, Ross! Helpful to know that.

I think there was an embargo of sorts, but we were sending it from Thursday last week so I think you're fine. It's been a good state for 1+ weeks anyway, so no harm done!