#linkrot · Louche Cannon

02011-02022 (11 years): The original URL for this prediction (www.longbets.org/601) will no longer be available in eleven years. - Long Bets

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:36:36 +0200

Bookmarked https://longbets.org/601/

Link Genetic · GitHub

Mon, 11 May 2026 07:46:28 +0200

Bookmarked https://github.com/Link-Genetic-Inc

Link Genetic — Stay Unbroken | Web Link Monitoring & Repair

Mon, 11 May 2026 07:43:20 +0200

Bookmarked https://linkgenetic.com/

404s — gallery of error 404 page designs

Sat, 05 Apr 2025 07:32:26 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.404s.design/

Why the Internet Archive is More Relevant Than Ever - Slashdot

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:42:12 +0200

Bookmarked https://m.slashdot.org/story/440137

"https://goo.gl/" - Google Scholar

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:55:33 +0200

Bookmarked https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=90&q=%22https://goo.gl/%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5

ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations | Nieman Journalism Lab

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:48:13 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/06/chatgpt-is-hallucinating-fake-links-to-its-news-partners-biggest-investigations/

new kind of linkrot

Saving the First Draft of History - Nieman Reports

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:01:01 +0200

Bookmarked https://niemanreports.org/articles/saving-the-first-draft-of-history/

Link Rot and Digital Decay on Government, News and Other Webpages | Pew Research Center

Sun, 19 May 2024 12:18:57 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Reference Rot in the Digital Humanities Literature: An Analysis of Citations Containing Website Links in DHQ

Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:06:49 +0200

Bookmarked https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/1/000662/000662.html

The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic

Sat, 03 Jul 2021 07:38:01 +0200

Bookmarked https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

Remarkable that he can write all this without once mentioning DOIs.

PLOS ONE: Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot

Sun, 09 Aug 2015 10:48:45 +0200

Bookmarked http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115253

Intuitively, one would assume that URI references to journal articles can readily be recognized by detecting HTTP URIs that carry a DOI, e.g., http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00799-014-0108-0. However, it turns out that references rather frequently have a direct link to an article in a publisher's portal, e.g. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00799-014-0108-0, instead of the DOI link. As a result, URI references to scholarly articles were recognized as follows:

Robust Links

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:26:50 +0200

Bookmarked http://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/

In any case, anybody wanting to read/cite @zittrain on …

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:09:46 +0100

In any case, anybody wanting to read/cite @zittrain on #linkrot can see it at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2329161

And there isn’t really a use-case for making scholarly and …

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:07:03 +0100

And there isn’t really a use-case for making scholarly and legal citation infrastructure compatible, is there? #linkrot #precedent

But we talked to those orgs before founding a new one to see …

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:05:57 +0100

But we talked to those orgs before founding a new one to see if they could handle our new workflows and use cases, didn’t we? #linkrot

But how were we to know about those #precedents? …

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:03:21 +0100

But how were we to know about those #precedents? http://goo.gl/nih1l1 #linkrot

DataCite, founded 2009 http://goo.gl/TIKxxH #linkrot …

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:02:36 +0100

DataCite, founded 2009 http://goo.gl/TIKxxH #linkrot #precedent

OK, if only there were organisation *run by libraries & …

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:02:09 +0100

OK, *if only* there were organisation *run by libraries & archives* fighting #linkrot, we wouldn’t have had to create a new one.

CrossRef, founded 2000 http://goo.gl/mmvefP #linkrot …

Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:00:57 +0100

CrossRef, founded 2000 http://goo.gl/mmvefP #linkrot #precedent