Rant against new window
One thing has been bugging me more and more lately. I like to be pretty much in control of my browsing. When I click a link I expect the browser window to navigate to a new page, not open up a new browser window for the new site. In the blogosphere, I can't always rely on this. Seemingly arbitrarily, some bloggers make all links or some links open a new window. I can understand this if you link to a panel or a multipedia source, but for normal blog and newspaper pages?
Are these bloggers afraid that people will never come back once they have read the site you are linking? If so, annoying youir visitors by cluttering their screens is not going to help. There is an easy way for people who want to open a new window to do so for a normal link (shift-click). Alas, there is not an easy way to avoid it (except by drag-dropping the hyperlink). Give your readers the choice to browse the way they like it!
Ok, I'm finished now. Freshly used soapbox for sale!
1:33:24 PM 
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