Digital Amnesia

More recent content lookup are equally alarming:

  • In 2023, 38% of all pages created in the previous decade – gone;
  • 1 in 5 links on government pages – broken (of which 86% were internal to the sites);
  • 32% of links from news site – dead;
  • 11% of reference links on Wikipedia – unreachable (with 53% of pages having at least one broken link);
  • On social media, 90% of tweets disappeared within 46 days.

The issue is so widespread that it has a name: Link rot.

— Read on tnlnet.substack.com/p/digital-amnesia

Monument 10k

Friday morning Ana was like “you should try it,” and I was like “I’m gonna!” and I went from the couch to running the Monument 10k in a day.

It only took 20 years but I finally get to check this off of my Richmond bingo card.

Longest run I’ve done (probably ever?). Not only is Ana and her ability to tackle anything she puts her mind to an inspiration but she’s also an awesome coach and cheerleader.

Also: ow.