Glenn Reynolds points out a hilarious example of complete cluelessness on the part of a big media web site. It seems ABC News’ web site has started a weblog called The Daily Note — sort of like The Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web, though not nearly as entertaining.
The clueless part is that they include a short description of items on the web, but don’t link to them directly. Instead they just include a plaintext URL at the end of the item that you have to copy and paste into your browser if you want to visit the site. Since they’ll almost certainly change this once they realize everyone’s laughing at their ineptness, here’s a screenshot example with the URL highlighted,
Wouldn’t want to link off-site. That would be totally inconsistent with the way the web works.