New York Times Wipes Journalist's Online Corpus

thefickler writes "Reading about Peter Wayner and his problems with book piracy reminded me of another writer, Thomas Crampton, who has the opposite problem — a lot of his work has been wiped from the Internet. Thomas Crampton has worked for the New York Times (NYT) and the International Herald Tribune (IHT) for about a decade, but when the websites of the two newspapers were merged two months ago, a lot of Crampton's work disappeared into the ether. Links to the old stories are simply hitting generic pages. Crampton wrote a letter to Arthur Sulzberger, the publisher of the NYT, pleading for his work to be put back online. The hilarious part: according to one analysis, the NYT is throwing away at least $100,000 for every month that the links remain broken."

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Error establishing a database connection

[six11]

I was interested in reading the analysis that led to the $100,000/month loss per month the guy's work was offline. So doing what you do, I clicked on the link and found it grandly hilarious to receive a 500 error stating: "Error establishing a database connection". Oh, the irony.

Re:CNN's website doesn't have as many broken links

[thedonger]

Tell me this in 50 years and I'll honestly clap my hands.

Pay me $100,000 per month and I'll dishonestly clap my hands right now.

Re:The Internet Is the New Library of Alexandria

[PhilHibbs]

And it's got unlimited space.

The internet is actually nearly full, I hope there is eno

Re:CNN's website doesn't have as many broken links

[Cornelius the Great]

...I'll gladly clap my hands 40 hours a week in whatever venue you deem most appropriate.

Well now, that depends on what you're willing to have in between your hands while clapping, and how soft your hands are...