The Internet Is Rotting - The Atlantic
A terrific piece by Jonathan Zittrain on bitrot and online digital preservation:
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.
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Quotebacks
This looks like a nifty tool for blogs:
Quotebacks is a tool that makes it easy to grab snippets of text from around the web and convert them into embeddable blockquote web components.
Wikipedia:List of articles with doomed BBC links - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Read it and weep. Here are the articles on Wikipedia that reference URLs that are getting axed as part of the BBC’s upcoming cull.
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What a wonderful idea for a blog: “Collecting Wikipedia’s finest [citation needed] prose.”
Science Fiction Citations for OED
Put all those years of reading science fiction to use. Help track down first usage of sci-fi terms.