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A Decade of Dead Links
I turned on the broken link checker plugin at lunchtime, and let it run through the site over the next few hours* before checking back this evening. Holy crap, there’s a lot of outdated links on this...
View ArticleFeedly 404 Feedback Loop
I set up 404 Notifier when I moved my Les Mis commentary to its own blog, to catch anything I might have missed while getting content moved and the new site set up. I then added the RSS feed to Feedly....
View ArticleSaving Ideas from the Contracting Blogosphere
Before the quick-status type social networks like Twitter and Facebook took off, it seemed like everyone was starting a blog. And every company seemed to want to get in on it: it wasn’t enough to have...
View ArticleLinkrot, Ten Years On
In cleaning up dead links, I stumbled on an old post about linkrot in which I wondered “how much of what exists today will still be around – in any form – ten years from now.” Well, it’s been ten...
View ArticleHow Link Shorteners Leave Holes in Your Social Media
Another problem I’ve noticed in my Twitter archive: Lots of URL shorteners and image hosts have shut down or purged their archives. Sure, bit.ly and is.gd and tinyurl and ow.ly are still around. But in...
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