I wonder what the "rot factor" is for scientific citations? Some professional societies I am in mandate URLs for bibliographical references. Most of the time these are peer-reviewed articles. But they can be softer references like Wiki reviews, data repositories, etc.
The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact
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#52Gwern has a good summary of the research in this: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs >In a 2003 experiment, Fetterly et al. discovered that about one link out of every 200 disappeared each week from the Internet. McCown et al 2005 discovered that half of the URLs cited in D-Lib Magazine articles were no longer accessible 10 years after publication [the irony!], and other studies have shown link rot in academic li…
Pinboard sees similar effects: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/501406303747457024
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#53Whatever happened to DOI? (Or leveraging Google's knowledge of redirects?) A lot of rot is hosting changes; the documents, if the author cared, could well be hosted somewhere else.
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#54I actually purchased a $300 spot on this. I did get quite a few clicks, but very low-quality traffic. Mostly, I got lots of offers from copycat sites to join their "billion dollar" homepage or whatnot.
It's crazy how many copycats came out, very unoriginal thinking going on.
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#55I can still access http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ I can't currently access the article at https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2017/07/21/a-million-squand... [Insert joke about irony here.]
Archive here! https://perma.cc/A6ZZ-79X6
Re: The “Million Dollar Homepage” as a Decaying Digital Artifact
#56Here's an archive of the article for those having trouble accessing it:
https://perma.cc/A6ZZ-79X6
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#57Oh wow, I remember that.
1 million pixels for only a dollar each!
That guy made a nice bundle off the idea, it got picked up and hyped by the media so much I'm sure the companies that bought in got some ROI, or at least some publicity. Such was the extent of the dot com bubble that this sort of nonsense could happen and everyone cheered...
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#58Whatever happened to DOI? (Or leveraging Google's knowledge of redirects?) A lot of rot is hosting changes; the documents, if the author cared, could well be hosted somewhere else.
Are you referring to Digital Object Identifiers? If so, they are still being used. I've only seen it be utilized for scientific research data though - check out datacite.org
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#59I just heard about the "Million Dollar Homepage" for the first time last week. Would this idea (or one like it) work today? Making a million dollars for something so bizarre, fun, and straightforward sounds amazing. Can anyone reference other attempts at similar ideas?
BitCoin, where the inventor managed to convince people to accept a new currency, mined the first few blocks of it, and ended up with a billion dollars in paper wealth as a result.
Except the inventor's coins have not been moved in ages so there's that..
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#60I actually purchased a $300 spot on this. I did get quite a few clicks, but very low-quality traffic. Mostly, I got lots of offers from copycat sites to join their "billion dollar" homepage or whatnot. It's crazy how many copycats came out, very unoriginal thinking going on.
I remember that time - there were even people trying to sell guides purporting to teach people how to set up their own million-dollar homepage!