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Jorn Barger suggests several things to do when creating a link to another site. The common theme here is provide as much information as you can: tell the viewer if you’re sending them to a Java applet or PDF file, provide a snippet, give them your opinion on the link.

In the Weblog and Glossary world, these things map easily into columns in a database table, or instance variables in an object.

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