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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."
Groovy baby.
CNN's website doesn't have as many broken links.
Articles over a decade old still work!
Whoever designed theirs deserves a lot of credit.
according to one analysis, the NYT is throwing away at least $100,000 for every month that the links remain broken."
Also according to one analysis: the world is flat.
Apparently the NYT may have a different opinion.
Either that or they're so large $100,000 a month is so insignificant to them it's not the most viable cost-saving/revenue-improving project for them to start at this time.
When you read the article, you find one of the main reasons he wants the articles back up is because he himself doesn't have copies of the articles. TFA and Slashdot are full of angst towards the megacorp, but nobody seems to have noted this point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms_Fnd_in_a_Lbry