Comments on: Blog Writing: What Do You Do When a Blog Goes Bye-Bye?

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:25:50 +0000

Actually, that is a bit down ;)Ignore the last week tho, tsivkhginang week is always terrible statswise.

By: Raul

Raul — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:38:21 +0000

It doesn’t really matter. Even today, books on print have a ton of references to publications that are no longer available, at leat near you. What I am trying to say is that citing the work is just a duty of Due Diligence. What is important is that you know your subject. For instance, St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the theologians that brought Aristotle back from the dead. Believe it or not, after the Fall of Rome, Europe lost its best literature for hundreds of years and the broken link to its past was one of the main causes of the Dark Ages. It also allowed the Catholic Church to become powerful.

Aside from translating Aristotle’s work to Latin, St. Thomas Aquinas also wrote commentaries for theological purposes, obviously; mainly to prove that Aristotle was “really” talking about God. The point is that although not everyone had the works of Aristotle at home, they knew about his philosophy through St. Thomas Aquinas. In summary, if you reference a dictionary, the chances are high that your readers will find at least new edition (LOL). Anything else, even for someone who lives in the NYC Metro Area like myself and has access to the New York Public Library, will be out of print. In fact, the existence of listings titled “100 most influential books of all time” tells exactly what you can source all the time. Again, content; not reference. In fact, references are used by academia to trap their students. Notice how we speak about the US Constitution as if everyone had read it.

By: ashok

ashok — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:28:27 +0000

I’m really sorry about the 2 weeks worth of work lost, but this was an excellent article not just about keeping links up to date, but about a trend we don’t hear much about. If it seems like it’s a very few users making a lot of noise on the Internet, that perception is very close to being the truth. I’m active on my blog, stumbleupon, twitter, digg and a number of other places. The amount of content I produce is huge, and I’m just one person.

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:39:36 +0000

I discovered purely by coincidence last night that another blog I had linked to within a blog post is now gone. But the cool thing is that I had “Shared” the post in Google Reader, so it’s still there even though the site itself is not. So, I’ve copied the original text out of the Reader feed and saved it to a PDF and am now trying to track down the author.

Yet another reason to love Google Reader!!

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:11:27 +0000

What can be worse than a completely dead site is a domain name being taken over by someone else who then decides to publish something completely different, particularly if it’s likely to offend the original audience. It’s not uncommon for an “adult” site to replace a previous site — at best it’ll be one of those daft ad-laden holding pages.

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:26:21 +0000

Ooof! Somehow I missed the paragraph where you specifically mentioned IA until after I had posted that comment. Sorry!

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:24:31 +0000

What about the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine to find and/or reference back to the defunct post? Maybe you could even capture the original content and acquire permission to republish it or at least make a PDF of it available as a reference from within your new post? There's a dead link in one of my older blog posts that referred to a very inspiring article I simply cannot find again, so I share your frustration. I hate to remove my post, but also hate to leave a dead link laying around out there.