Tuesday, May 10, 2011

A good idea, at least: WebCite

I haven't played around with it enough to give it a review, but I applaud the thinking behind WebCite, at least.

The idea is to combat link rot (or wingnut bloggers, who disappear their posts after being proved wrong!) by archiving a copy of a Web page that you use as a reference, exactly as that page appeared when you linked to it.

Imagine if someone were to write a script to go through Wikipedia and WebCite all of the reference links. How fabulous would that be?

Submit a link for WebCite archiving here. More info here.

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(I came across this in a TPM post about Donald Trump telling Fox & Friends that he is totally not at all a racist, because he had that one black apprentice that one time.)

1 comment:

repsac3 said...

Guy who preemptively moderates comments whines and cries when his off topic comments get moderated away.

Insert hypocrisy noise here.

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