Cox Crow

Avoiding Link Rot: Redirection

When I moved, some links were left behind, rotting.

5:36:01 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online, System Administration

Despair

NPR broadcast two complementary stories this morning on the pathetic situation in the Levant: one, about an Israeli family who lost an 18-month-old child and a grandmother; the other, about a Palestinian family who lost a 12-year-old girl and her aunt. Is there no hope?

4:15:02 PM # Google It!
categories: Sadness

I like to subscribe to sites that I catch reading mine, if they have RSS feeds.

2:51:39 PM #
categories: Writing Online

A Form of Change of Address Notification

I asked for this, though not in the same manner, when I began moving from BestWeb to pair networks.

RSS auto-discovery.

Matt Griffith: Do any RSS aggregators use the HTML link element? [via Joe Gregorio: Ideas, Ideas, Ideas]

This sounds like a fantastic idea. Specifying the location of your RSS feed in a standard machine-readable format would solve a real problem. And as far as I can tell, it's actually using HTML the way it was intended. (The specification doesn't mention RSS explicitly; it just open-endedly says that you can use the link tag to designate substitute versions for the document in which the link occurs. This would certainly seem to qualify.)
— [dive into mark]

In my hurry to go on vacation, I just added a meta element to the HTML pages to refresh to here, but that's not adequate. It misses the XML files, for one, and doesn't avoid incoming link rot. I spent some time today correcting both items.

1:59:54 PM # Google It!
categories: Writing Online

On a side note, this little item at Restoration Hardware is very popular.

Hoist on Their Own Petard: Record industry unveils music format that can't be played in any computer. From urbanreflex.com [Over the Edge]

11:58:41 AM #
categories: Media