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Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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The World Wide Web is kept interconnected through hyperlinks. But what happens when those hyperlinks stop working? Researchers say hyperlinks are dying at an alarming rate, and it could signal trouble for journalists, historians, and academics. Clare Stanton (@clare_stanton) at the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School joins Recode Daily to explain. References: Read Clare’s report here: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/linkrot-content-drift-new-york-times.php Learn more about Perma.cc here This episode was made by: Host: Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) Producer: Alan Rodriguez Espinoza (@ardzes) Engineer: Melissa Pons Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Think about cheese.
0:02.0	Make your thoughts cheesier.
0:04.2	Now add 100% chicken breast fillet, Chipopla sauce and ameta cheese melt.
0:08.3	And it's giving the new cheesy chicken stack at McDonald's.
0:12.0	Did we mention it's cheesy?
0:13.9	Cheese.
0:15.8	Availments at the 4th of Jan, 2026 from 11 a.m.
0:18.1	Price and participation may vary.
0:19.2	Subjects availability.
0:21.1	Hey, it's Adam.
0:22.3	Just a reminder that we're on a break for the next couple weeks.
0:25.2	And Rico Daily will be back with new episodes in the new year.
0:28.2	In the meantime, here's one of our favorites from this year.
0:31.6	Thanks.
0:45.4	How many times have you gone to click on a link only to find out that the page or even the entire website no longer exists?
0:54.6	Maybe replying to a job or trying to show a friend to tweet or looking for a delicious recipe and the page is just dead, gone, never to be found again.
0:59.5	Experts describe this process as link rod, and they say it can be a serious problem when it comes to preserving historical records, especially since so much of what we do now is online.
1:08.3	One of these experts is Claire Stanton. Claire is the member of the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School.
1:14.2	And earlier this year, she worked on a study for the Columbia Journalism Review that examined the problem of Linkrot.
1:20.0	She joins us now to tell us more.
1:22.0	Hey, Claire, thanks for being here.
1:23.3	Hi, thanks so much for having me.
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