{"id":129575,"date":"2016-01-30T15:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/battling-link-rot-with-amber.html"},"modified":"2016-02-01T06:34:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:34:19","slug":"battling-link-rot-with-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/battling-link-rot-with-amber.html","title":{"rendered":"Battling link rot with Amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea how many of the links on this 15-year-old blog are no longer good &#8212; but I know when I&#39;ve tracked down articles in the past here I&#39;ve far too often run into broken ones.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m going to give Amber a look-see to determine if this might be at least a partial answer to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>(I also need to do some more deep digging to see if the name for this creating nigh-identical copies of the original content was derived from Roger Zelazny&#39;s <i>Amber<\/i> series &#8230; it seems like almost too good a fit for it not to be.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Kee Hinckley<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/today.law.harvard.edu\/berkman-center-releases-tool-to-combat-link-rot\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/8hJR-uRMva4pNmOA8an_2Z0l3AUpFvPWn7vjImDwzSB6MDKVkbnQAFtT_QWRKuVuj2EU3RialoAHyOtwm6VdThWrL7gfDdZtCdJ9nH7KdDXpLmLbGEhaeQ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/today.law.harvard.edu\/berkman-center-releases-tool-to-combat-link-rot\/'>Berkman Center releases tool to combat &#8216;link rot&#8217; &#8211; Harvard Law TodayHarvard Law Today<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThis week, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University announced the release of Amber, a free software tool for websites and blo\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/3WbGvvhx8Qg'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea how many of the links on this 15-year-old blog are no longer good &#8212; but I know when I&#39;ve tracked down articles in the past here I&#39;ve far too often run into broken ones. I&#39;m going to give Amber a look-see to determine if this might be at least a partial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/30\/battling-link-rot-with-amber.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Battling link rot with Amber&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5688,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/23\/pithy.html","url_meta":{"origin":129575,"position":0},"title":"Pithy","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Jan-04 8:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's Game WISH: Sum up one or more games that you GM or play in 10 words or less. 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