A-List: “Via” attribution links are a tip jar for the sites that enable you to fashion a career out of typing. Choosing to acknowledge only your treehouse buddies and the non-fiction authors whom you hope will eventually invite you to a literate weekend in the Hamptons is more than tacky; it also denies your readers access to the fundamental resource that a good linkblog represents — an engaged log of where one interesting person’s attention habitually lands.

Open the treasure chest, already. It’ll make for wins all around.

[Addressed to me, too? You bet.]