siderea | I Blame the W3C’s HTML Standard for Ordered Lists [tech, soc, Patreon]
Gosh! And I thought I had strong opinions about markup!
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Friday, September 1st, 2023
Saturday, July 3rd, 2021
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.
Saturday, June 13th, 2020
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.
Friday, February 25th, 2011
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.
Friday, February 11th, 2011
[Citation Needed]
What a wonderful idea for a blog: “Collecting Wikipedia’s finest [citation needed] prose.”
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Science Fiction Citations for OED
Put all those years of reading science fiction to use. Help track down first usage of sci-fi terms.