{"id":790,"date":"2003-08-25T23:04:01","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-790.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"low-threshold-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/08\/25\/low-threshold-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Low threshold links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have them in a sidebar and call them &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsen.no\/anders\/blog\/\">Further random reading<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsenhayden.com\/electrolite\/\">sidelights<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittywompus.com\/macadamia\/\">trinkets<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/overstated.net\/\">oddments<\/a>&#8220;, or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/entries\/2003\/08\/23#1061637120\">obLinks<\/a>&#8220;.  Other people post occasional blog entries filled with <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/07\/linkdumps_are_like_sex\">links<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbag.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/the_magic_palace_of_design_and_fonts.shtml\">more links<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/danhon.com\/ec\/mtarchives\/2003\/08\/18\/monday_morning\/index.shtml\">nothing but links<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the best and most descriptive <em>name<\/em> I&#8217;ve seen for them for them comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/overstated.net\/\">Cameron Marlow<\/a> who calles them &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/overstated.net\/03\/08\/030813low_threshold_links.asp\">Low threshold links<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/overstated.net\/03\/08\/030813low_threshold_links.asp\"><p>&#8220;&#8230;My threshold for what to post was way to high to catch many of the sites I was laughing at, engaged by, and sending on to my friends. Instead of losing these links thanks to my imperfect brain, I decided like many others to create a separate weblog just for the ephemeral sites that didn&#8217;t deserve discussion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s an abundance of information around on how to set up a sidebar with low threshold links on your blog; Anders Jacobsen has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsen.no\/anders\/blog\/archives\/2003\/06\/05\/adding_a_sideblog_in_mt.html\">particularly simple way of doing it<\/a> for Movable Type.<\/p>\n<p>(My sidebar&#8217;s a bit crowded right now, so I&#8217;m just going to stick to linkdumps in the body of entries for the moment.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people have them in a sidebar and call them &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsen.no\/anders\/blog\/\">Further random reading<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsenhayden.com\/electrolite\/\">sidelights<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kittywompus.com\/macadamia\/\">trinkets<\/a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/overstated.net\/\">oddments<\/a>&#8220;, or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oblomovka.com\/entries\/2003\/08\/23#1061637120\">obLinks<\/a>&#8220;.  Other people post occasional blog entries filled with <a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2003\/07\/07\/linkdumps_are_like_sex\">links<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticbag.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/the_magic_palace_of_design_and_fonts.shtml\">more links<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/danhon.com\/ec\/mtarchives\/2003\/08\/18\/monday_morning\/index.shtml\">nothing but links<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-movable_type","category-the_web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}