{"id":3782,"date":"2016-01-30T17:24:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2016-01-30T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-30T17:26:22","slug":"fighting-linkrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/fighting-linkrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Linkrot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I quite often read above my understanding age, which is why Hapgood<\/a> is in my RSS feeds. The other day I read: Connected Copies<\/a> where I read this:<\/p>\n

the future of the web involves moving away from the idea of centralized, authoritative locations and into something I call \u201cconnected copies\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This lead me to AMBER<\/a> where it says:<\/p>\n

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society<\/a> wants to keep linked content accessible.<\/p>\n

Whether links fail because of DDoS attacks, censorship, or just plain old link rot, reliably accessing linked content is a problem for Internet users everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having blogged for a while I am very aware of this problem, links I’ve made have fallen away. My bookmarks are full of holes.<\/p>\n

Just the other day I linked to a couple of posts here that were made this month. They have already gone.1<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Preserve
Preserve Links Now. The plugin added this to my post editor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve installed the Amber WordPress Plugin<\/a> here and set it to use the Internet Archive to ‘save links’ when I make them. I could have chosen to save them here, but I wonder if that could get messy?<\/p>\n

The other thing that crosses my mind is what if people want to rub out something they have published. When a post is taken down deliberately, should I be archiving it? \u00a0The posts I mentioned above were deleted by the author (I presume). Should I then make public copies available? \u00a0That is what would have happened if I’d had the amber plugin working at the time.<\/p>\n

I don’t know the answer to these questions or how the plugin works, but I’ll keep it running here for a while and look out for broken links.<\/p>\n

\"After
After hitting the button I get a list of links preserved. Presumably on the Internet Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

Featured image<\/strong> Flickr photo Public Domain: Image from page 28 of “The effect of black rot on turnips, a series of photomicrographs, accompanied by an explanatory text” (1903) | Flickr – Photo Sharing!<\/a><\/p>\n

1. <\/a> These links were to posts Dean Groom made about Microsoft acquiring Minecraft EDU. Strangely they have persisted in my RSS reader. I’d recommend a more recent one that is still there: Media Literacy: 5 key concepts to teach this year | Playable<\/a> \u21a9<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I quite often read above my understanding age, which is why Hapgood is in my RSS feeds. The other day I read: Connected Copies where I read this: the future of the web involves moving away from the idea of centralized, authoritative locations and into something I call \u201cconnected copies\u201d. This lead me to AMBER […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,6],"tags":[116,29,30,11],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-enviable-stuff","8":"category-wwwd","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-lifeinlinks","11":"tag-links","12":"tag-wordpress","13":"kind-article","15":"h-entry","16":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":{"id":3783,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1000,"height":506,"file":"2016\/01\/link-rot.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"link-rot-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot-150x150.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"link-rot-620x314.jpg","width":620,"height":314,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot-620x314.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"link-rot-768x389.jpg","width":768,"height":389,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot-768x389.jpg"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"link-rot-668x338.jpg","width":668,"height":338,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot-668x338.jpg"},"sempress-image-post":{"file":"link-rot-668x338.jpg","width":668,"height":338,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot-668x338.jpg"},"rpwe-thumbnail":{"file":"link-rot-45x45.jpg","width":45,"height":45,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot-45x45.jpg"},"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":{"file":"link-rot-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot-50x50.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"","orientation":0,"keywords":[]}},"post":3782,"source_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot.jpg"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/link-rot.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-Z0","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}