- Digital is rarely archival. And that’s troubling for establishing reliable standards (even when you’re reporting on your gym teach wooing your English teacher).
- When GateHouse bought the Morris papers, a decision was made to save server space by only transferring about a decade worth of online stories. That meant the first decade or so of CJOnline is lost and gone forever. A GateHouse executive got pissy with me for caring.
- In related news, I just spent way too much time trying to find links to a couple of blockbusters so I could look them up in the Wayback Machine. One was an AG sex scandal: web.archive.org/web/20071212...
- Inexplicably, this 2015 report on Gov. Sam Brownback's brother is nowhere to be found at the website that broke the story: web.archive.org/web/20150910...
- There used to be a fantastic tool that @palewi.re developed, but it got effectively nuked when Twitter/X throttled API calls because it used that login to actually access your workAug 28, 2025 21:23
