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Linked endnotes for Say Everything

July 8, 2009 by Scott Rosenberg 5 Comments

Now live on the Say Everything website: The book’s entire set of endnotes, all properly linked to their mostly URL-based sources.

When I started writing for the Web in 1994 I quickly understood that the ability to link directly to sources was a godsend for demonstrating the quality of your work. So when I returned to print to write Dreaming in Code, I was a little frustrated: endnotes are a valuable tradition, but when the bulk of the sources are on the Web, you wind up with a bunch of lengthy URL codes sitting there dead on the paper. So with that book I duplicated the endnotes on the book’s site. And I’ve now done that again.

I hope this will help those readers of the book who want to dig deeper into the source material. It will also give anyone who is on the fence about whether they’re interested in the book’s topics another way to explore its contents before buying.

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  1. Rudolf Ammann

    July 8, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    Excellent!

    One error that jumped out at me, though: your assertion in note 86 that “early editions of CamWorld’s blogroll are not archived in the Internet Archive” is in fact incorrect. Right from its start, CamWorld.com had a robots.txt retrieval exclusion in place that prevented the Internet Archive from archiving any copies, but CamWorld moved to CamWorld.com only in April 1999. Prior to that, it lived at CamBarrett.com, and that domain did not exclude robots. Barrett started his famed blogroll on 26 January 1999, and the Internet Archive has the 28 January 1999 version.

  2. Scott Rosenberg

    July 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Thanks, Rudolf. First benefit of posting this info is that people can tell me where I goofed.

    I think I relied on Cam’s own report to me that the blogroll had not survived, and I poked at the camworld.com archives and the Internet Archive for the site to confirm, but didn’t know about the previous domain. Good that this little bit of internet history survives in some form. I’ll fix it in the online version and we’ll see about fixing it in future print editions.

  3. Cameron Barrett

    September 6, 2009 at 5:54 am

    Rudolf is correct. The archive that archive.org is the oldest available archive of my original blogroll. I honestly cannot remember if there were earlier versions than this.

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