{"id":1481,"date":"2005-04-17T01:58:16","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T01:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/04\/17\/my_own_linking_practices.html"},"modified":"2005-04-17T01:58:16","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T01:58:16","slug":"my_own_linking_practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/04\/17\/my_own_linking_practices.html","title":{"rendered":"my own linking practices"},"content":{"rendered":"

I posted Shelley’s hysterical essay Guys Don’t Link<\/a> to Misbehaving<\/a>, including this great passage:<\/p>\n

“Shelley, to a woman, a link is a way of connecting and being connected. To hearing and being heard. But not so for a guy. Guys see links as power, and therefore something precious, and to be protected. They hold on to their links as tightly, and as lovingly, as a thirsty drunk holds onto a bottle.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A friend of mine was alarmed and told me that Shelley was mistaken and that he links more frequently to women than to men. There’s no doubt that Shelley’s parody emphasized the male-male linking patterns. I have no doubt that male bloggers link to women, but i wonder in what numbers. I mean, blogrolls tend to be very male and i assume that homophily works pretty effectively. I also wonder how many posts people post without any links whatsoever or without any links to people\/blogs.<\/p>\n

I decided to count my last 30 posts to see what my own numbers were.<\/p>\n