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- noun Internet The steady increase in number of
broken hyperlinks aswebpages are moved or removed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Waxy. filthy light thief: Jakob Neilsen coined the term linkrot broadly as links that originally worked but are now broken.
MetaFilter Korou 2008
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I wrote about linkrot and the problems with online permanence back in August.
Linkrot on Steroids: The Problems with URL Shorteners : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2009
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Our cavalier refusal to ask these questions only exacerbates the problem of linkrot.
Linkrot on Steroids: The Problems with URL Shorteners : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2009
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July 22, 2005 10: 34 robotanders: skritchy, linkrot? where? the links in the post work for me.
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One ironic example of linkrot in the Canadian legal context is the disappearance of two major government-sponsored reports on the promising role that the Internet will play in Canadian economic and cultural survival.
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Further to an earlier post I made on SLAW on the topic of linkrot [1] i.e., the problem of references in scholarly publications to websites that no longer have valid URLs, the current edition of the Law Library Journal [2] from the American Association of Law Libraries [3] also has a nice article on the topic of linkrot – see:
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One ironic example of linkrot in the Canadian legal context is the disappearance of two major government-sponsored reports on the promising role that the Internet will play in Canadian economic and cultural survival.
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Further to an earlier post I made on SLAW on the topic of linkrot i.e., the problem of references in scholarly publications to websites that no longer have valid URLs, the current edition of the Law Library Journal from the American Association of Law Libraries also has a nice article on the topic of linkrot – see:
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When web pages have a half life of only two years on average, the problem of linkrot means that a lot of information on public websites may well not be there several years in the future Wallace Koehler, âKeeping the Web Garden Weeded: Managing the Elusive URLâ?
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Further to an earlier post I made on SLAW on the topic of linkrot i.e., the problem of references in scholarly publications to websites that no longer have valid URLs, the current edition of the Law Library Journal from the American Association of Law Libraries also has a nice article on the topic of linkrot – see:
vanishedone commented on the word linkrot
Joshua's Blog: '...And the long-term archivability of the hyperlink now depends on the health of a third party. The shortener may decide a link is a Terms Of Service violation and delete it. If the shortener accidentally erases a database, forgets to renew its domain, or just disappears, the link will break. If a top-level domain changes its policy on commercial use, the link will break... The most likely outcome, of course, is that we don't do anything and that the great linkrot apocalypse causes all of modern culture to dissapear in a puff of smoke. Hopefully.'
April 13, 2009