Dumber at AOL
AOL's blogging service is blocking referrers from the LiveJournal community, meaning it is clipping the wings of its blogging service. Ross Mayfield has more on this, but basically it means if you blog on AOL you have no idea who is paying attention and cannot keep track of references to your site. Ross says people won't bolt to other services, but that's not the problem -- AOL has to attract new customers and, if your brother blogs on LiveJournal and knows AOL won't let him link to your site to conduct a family conversation between your two blogs, you won't get a recommendation that AOL is a good blogging option. He's probably right that AOL will back off this policy, but I think they will only back away part way. The walled garden mentality at AOL is a big problem, especially now that Time Warner people call the shots.
FOLLOW UP: The Head Lemur says "BZZZZT!!! Wrong!" to Ross.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at August 29, 2003 09:13 PM | TrackBack