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relevant to my post last night that I'm going back and fixing up my 23 years of blog archives, and restoring broken links, it is *astounding* how much better a job the personal web does at keeping links alive and content online. Most personal blogs I linked to are either still around or redirect to a place where the content is easy to find. The vast majority of corporate content (including news) has been erased, with only imperfect Internet Archive copies available.
@anildash This makes me think about care. Previously, I’ve worked for websites who have been either negligent or intentionally hostile towards old links. But in both cases, there was a simple element of disregard. Old links had no value, they were seen as disposable. Which is shocking and disappointing! I feel that many digital media companies internalized the skeptical gaze of traditional media, and came to consider their own work as disposable in a way that the personal web would never.