this is a great blog, but i just have some comments...i've noticed that, for the most part, you choose to link to sites using the names of the subjects. this can get confusing and sometimes frustrating when you want to go to the article but instead are taken to the greencine site.

for example: Tom Mes interviews Nobuhiro Yamashita.

- why would nobuhiro's link take us to imdb, but the Mes link take us to the article? the more logical link would be on the word "interview".

this happens again in another post: "charlotte o' sullivan has a problem audrey hepburn" linking "has a problem" would be more intuitive.

i dunno, maybe im making a fuss out of nothing. its just something i notice when i visit this site.

Hi, guy, I'm glad you brought this up, actually. I'm very conscious of my little quirk, and I realize that this isn't the usual practice, but over the years of blogging (more or less) at various sites, I've steered away from the link-as-statement idea, though it's terrific when it's done well (as it was back in the heyday of Suck). Instead, seems to me that when you ask yourself: What's the most interesting element shared by the single sentence or mention (the 'notification') on this blog and the page, text, film, what have you, on the other end of the link - it's the author. The writer, the filmmaker or artist you're pointing to.

Sometimes, the fact that the piece has appeared in this or that paper or magazine is just as interesting, but usually, the context is clear enough; as for verbs, if I were to look at, say, the sentence you mention at first glance, the word 'interview' is a lot less interesting to me, at any rate, than Tom Mes. So Tom Mes and his interviewee, Nobuhiro Yamashita are the two terms that leap out in bold green from that sentence. That seems about right to me.

I don't want to blow this all out of proportion, and I wouldn't take it all that seriously, either, but yeah, stuff like this, after all these years of people 'publishing' on the web, is still interesting.

As for the links to GreenCine, I think that only makes sense. This is GC's blog, after all. But when it comes to, say, filmmakers like Nobuhiro Yamashita, whose work isn't readily available on DVD, I know I'm interested in finding out more if I can, so offering at least a jumping off point, in this case, the IMDb, seems like a good idea.

Anyway. I'll wrap before I start looking like a kook, but thanks for bringing this up!

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