| About txtget is a copy/paste mechanism for the web. A tool to facilitate embedded and link journalism, and act as a currency for link economy. txtget is inspired by a post by Anil Dash on Embedded Journalism "I want you to place the text of this blog post on your own site. But I don't want you to do it just by copying and pasting it into your own blogging tool. I think there might be a different way to do it." Other resources that inspired the creation of txtget: Anil Dash, Even more on Copy and Paste Publish2, The dawn of link journalism Buzz Machine, Link Economy What is Embedded and Link Journalism? Because of the explosive growth of content and abundance of content creators, the majority of citizen journalism has turned into embedded and link journalism. Embedded and link journalism is about embedding part of a reporting or piece on the web and linking to it to enhance, complement, or add more context to original reporting. Links are the dominant distribution mechanism on the web. Links form the navigation method on the web, and they define sources rankings in Search Engines. Linking is essential to the practice of journalism on the web. |
