Kurt Greenbaum on “link journalism” for ASNE. Linking out is such a dead simple traffic builder, it’s hard to see why “curating the Web” isn’t embraced more enthusiastically.

Because their new media policy has grabbed the media attention (like a two-by-four to the forehead). Is Rick Pitino available? Knoxville News Sentinel blogger Michael Silence with the latest developments on the new SEC Media policy. Seriously, hopefully the foggy thinking that brought this was caused by the heat or something.

The Southeastern Conference is reacting to criticism of its iron-fisted media rights policy by saying it’ll tweak the rules a bit. The emphasis is on a bit. A conferences spokesman said SEC execs will definitely look at the provision that says only full-time employees of media organizations can get press credentials. Seems, lo and behold,…