{"id":5184,"date":"2008-12-08T17:13:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T01:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:27:18","slug":"breadcrummy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/12\/08\/breadcrummy\/","title":{"rendered":"Breadcrummy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4727,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2008\\\/12\\\/08\\\/sneak-fake-lens-lets.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251006012341\\\/https:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2008\\\/12\\\/08\\\/sneak-fake-lens-lets.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 17:27:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 14:02:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 07:58:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 07:58:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4728,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.likecool.com\\\/Super-Secret_Spy_Lens--Camera--Gear.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210103221852\\\/http:\\\/\\\/likecool.com\\\/Super-Secret_Spy_Lens--Camera--Gear.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 17:27:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 14:02:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 07:58:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 07:58:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4729,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/5103704\\\/unleash-your-inner-voyeur-with-a-super+secret-spy-lens&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/5103704\\\/unleash-your-inner-voyeur-with-a-super%20secret-spy-lens&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4730,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/photojojo.com\\\/store\\\/awesomeness\\\/candid-photography-spy-lens&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/parabo.press\\\/?from=pj&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m all for giving attribution for the goodies people find on the &#8216;net, letting readers know where the information comes from, acknowledging that links to cool stuff don&#8217;t just spontaneously appear, but are usually passed on from person to person and website to website.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, sometimes the process of tracing those breadcrumbs back when you actually want to get a little more information is an exercise in frustration.<\/p>\n<p>For instance:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Boing Boing posts about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/12\/08\/sneak-fake-lens-lets.html\" title=\"Boing Boing: Sneaky fake lens lets you take photos at right angle to direction you point the camera\">silly little photography gadget<\/a> that they saw over at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.likecool.com\/Super-Secret_Spy_Lens--Camera--Gear.html\" title=\"LikeCool: Super-Secret Spy Lens\">LikeCool<\/a>, who have a tiny little &#8220;via&#8221; link (that I almost missed as it was buried under a stack of Google ads) that links to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5103704\/unleash-your-inner-voyeur-with-a-super+secret-spy-lens\" title=\"Gizmodo: Unleash Your Inner Voyeur With a Super-Secret Spy Lens\">Gizmodo<\/a>, who finally link back to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photojojo.com\/store\/awesomeness\/candid-photography-spy-lens\" title=\"Photojojo: The Super-Secret Spy Lens\">Photojojo<\/a>, who actually <em>sell<\/em> the silly thing, and have things like tech specs, adapter info, and so on.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In LikeCool&#8217;s defense, they did link directly to Photojojo&#8217;s page in the text of their post, but I missed that link on my first readthrough (the forest green link text wasn&#8217;t enough of a contrast difference to the black body text to catch my eye on the first skim).<\/p>\n<p>Would it be too much trouble to say &#8220;I read about this <em>here<\/em>, and you can buy it or get more info <em>here<\/em>,&#8221; instead of forcing your readers to jump through multiple hoops? By the time I found my way to the source page, I&#8217;d pretty much lost interest in it. Besides, it looks more creepy than amusing or useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would it be too much trouble to say &#8216;I read about this _here_, and you can buy it or get more info _here_,&#8217; instead of forcing your readers to jump through multiple hoops? By the time I found my way to the source page, I&#8217;d pretty much lost interest in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[58,27],"class_list":["post-5184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-internet","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}