On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

That blog is now on hiatus. Details here:

https://www.artofthetitle.com/news/editors-note-2024/

Also, their syndicated feed to Dreamwidth has now been taken by what looks like a Vietnamese footwear company...?

Sorry for not noticing until just now. I missed this for six months!

Spark is discussing the problem of "link rot" this week. It's an ongoing issue for all of us, I suspect, depending on how old our respective weblogs are. I'm guilty of aggravating the problem by way of not correcting links between blog entries here since moving the whole blog over from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth back in 2017, for example.

Also, I think that paywalls aggravate the "link rot" problem. But what to do to keep those old news services' archives preserved and available without undermining peoples' efforts to keep earning whatever living they can?

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/something-s-rotten-in-the-state-of-the-internet-and-archivists-are-worried-1.6047113

I've been getting some overdue updating done to my home website's various pages. Which still need work, I'm sure.

Also, since Google Plus is no more, I needed a way to get some Google Photos albums to where people can see them. So, I've done an update on the Artblog.

Is everyone else on Dreamwidth who's reading pressthink_feed doing so at source rather than on Dreamwidth?

I like reading about journalism. The business, the ways and means, the people who do the work...all of it. I praise/blame Spider-Man and Superman for that, at least in part.

(For that matter, assuming that the Big Development in the Superman comics titles is old news to the public by now...how's the fact of Clark Kent going public about his dual-ID going over so far?)

I now have, at this writing, 1,500 tags from which to choose for my blog entries. Exactly that.

This was a minor surprise.

Well, this is new to me. Although a number of friends and acquaintances have already been linked into this blog by those curating it...

http://ottawabloglib.blogspot.ca/

Okay, updating Firefox from 17 to 18 doesn't seem to help matters. My Livejournal - on Firefox - still looks like this:



Chrome and Safari? It still looks exactly as I want it to on those browsers.

I promised the other day to run down a partial list of infrastructure-related weblogs I like reading regularly. So, in delivering on that promise...

I'll admit up front to the bias towards the Spacing Magazine-backed regional weblogs. I contribute to the Ottawa edition, and went to work with them on the basis of their magazine's in-print material. So, in addition to spacing_ottawa, we have four others:

Spacing Vancouver
Spacing Toronto
Spacing Montréal
Spacing Atlantic (focused on the Canadian cities of the Atlantic coastal provinces: Saint John, Fredericton, Moncton, Halifax, Sydney, Charlottetown, St. John's and so on)

(While I've got your attention: Spacing is looking for contributors to similar weblogs they've got in the works for these cities: Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ville de Québec. If you live in any of those cities and you've got informed opinions on the infrastructure there - the definition of "infrastructure" is more wide-ranging than you might think! - go talk to them ASAP!)

Added to that from across Canada:

Public Transit in Ottawa
Public Transit in Vancouver (which apparently has fallen fallow since 2008! Distressing!)

From the rest of the planet:

The Transport Politic
The Next American City
Atlantic Cities
Good
BLDGBLOG

Anyone have any recommendations for adding to this list? I know it's incomplete!