Blogcosm offers a good round-up of online reaction to a NIH agency’s not-so-useful method of citing a weblog.
Several bloggers noticed yesterday that the US National Library of Medicine (NLM, which is part of the NIH: National Institutes of Health) has a style guide for citing blogs… The NLM’s definition of a blog isn’t bad… But the guide itself is several years late and still flawed.
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