Dear oreilly.com, I hope you will not mind if I am doing some buzz on your name, but that’s for owark, the Open Web Archive, a project that have been launched at OSCON 2011 and that could make good use of some additional visibility.
Owark is currently implemented as a WordPress plugin that runs in three of my websites and replaces broken links by links to local archives.
As I was presenting owark today during a workshop at Paris Web 2011, I noticed that http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/index.html was one of these broken links and used this example to demonstrate the usefulness of this project.
Now that I have made my point, explaining to my attendees that even websites as geeky as oreilly.com could not be trusted to avoid linkrot, can I suggest that you add redirections from these old URLs to the new ones?
Of course, I know that you know that « cool URIs don’t change » and I have noticed that you are already redirecting http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/ (without the trailing « index.html ») to its new location but that’s not enough ;) …
Thanks,
Eric
PS: owark needs your help. If you’re interested, please leave a comment (if you log using an OpenID you’ll get the bonus of not being moderated), drop me a mail at vdv@dyomedea.com or contact me on Identica, Twitter, Skype, Yahoo or MSN where my pseudo is « evlist ».
