Linkbait if it’s Good Enough for Forbes it’s Good Enough for Me

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I’ve made no secret of my Disney fan status, in fact I have several news feeds set up to catch Disney items. Catching up in the feed reader this morning I came across the following: Top 10 luxury attractions at Disney World

Top 10 luxury attractions at Disney World How to have a five-star vacation at Disney parks and resorts

Needless to say this tickled my “link bait sensor” however upon further inspection, I realized the perpetuator of this “heinous attention garnering crime” is none other than Forbes magazine, republishing on MSNBC.com . I’ve said it many times in the past link bait isn’t anything new, the print world has been doing it for decades. It’s only new to the previously advertising averse turned web publishers.

ps: If I did it though my list would have went to 11

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Cecil S. January 17, 2007 at 12:23 pm: Hey Graywolf, I don’t know if you know or not, but when I view your homepage, I can only see half your posts, literally, the screen cuts the rest out.

I am using Internet Explorer, but I saw the same with FireFox a few days back. I’m getting an error at the bottom which has to do with newsvine?

Anyway when I hit the permalink, I can see the post fully. Just letting you know! (since you don’t come on AIM or MSN anymore ;p)
Randy Ray January 17, 2007 at 12:54 pm: I’m having the same problem viewing your blog as Cecil.
Blackbeard January 17, 2007 at 1:25 pm: Michael, instead of making your post go to eleven, why not just make the 10th post bolder?
Michael Gray January 17, 2007 at 1:30 pm: Blackbeard you don’t understand this one it goes to eleven
Cecil S. January 17, 2007 at 6:45 pm: I was changing it this morning, had a couple of problems and working on it