Today’s Thomas Friedman column, “Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?,” continues on his globalization theme, and reinforces that America is falling behind in many ways. He quotes a sentence from this CNET News.com article U.S. slips lower in coding contest.
On April 7, CNET News.com reported the following: “The University of Illinois tied for 17th place in the world finals of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest.
When I looked at Friedman’s column last night (the print newspaper comes online at 9pm PT the night before), the words CNET News.com linked directly to the article. Since then, someone changed the online version of the column to link only the words News.com to the CNET News.com home page. Wonder why they changed the link to the more generic instead of keeping the direct link to the cited article?