If you’re interested in contributing to a conversation about embedding external links in newspaper stories online, check out my latest post on the web.aan.org blog — it’s a web best practices blog for alternative weeklies. I’m a guest blogger.

Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at...