The Hanzo Archives Wordpress plugin is something I’d be very excited to use. Ironically, it’s disappeared from the web (though the blog post hasn’t):
We’ve released a Wordpress Plugin which automatically archives anything you link to in your blog posts; it also adds a ‘perma-permalink’ for the archived version adjacent to each original link.
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Posted June 9, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: archive, Hanzo Archives, link rot, perma-permalink, permalink, plugin, web archive, wordpress. Be the first one.

We’ve become accustomed to link rot and broken images in nearly all corners of the web, but is there a way to keep things a bit cleaner?
K.T. Lam of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology came up with this sweet trick using jQuery and readyState to find and replace broken images:

jQuery(’span#gbs_’+info.bib_key).parents(’ul’).find(’img.bookjacket[@readyState*="uninitialized"]‘).replaceWith(’<img src="’+info.thumbnail_url+’" alt="’+strTitle+’" height="140" [...]

Posted June 16, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: broken images, javascript, js, link rot, onerror, web design. One Comment.

Allen asked, via the web4lib list:
I’m interested in how others handle linkrot in library blogs. Do you fix broken links? Remove them if they can’t be fixed? Do nothing?
Michael answered:
I deal with link rot on blogs as I would with any other publication, print or otherwise: do nothing. The post is dated and users [...]

Posted May 2, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: blog archives, currency, fix links, link rot, linkrot, links, maintenance, old content, web4lib. Be the first one.