I\u2019ve noticed a few blogs dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u00ading over the past few months, blogs I used to enjoy read\u00ading and had poin\u00adted out to people. I find it dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00ading when people decide to get rid of the entire blog, though of course I defend their right to do so (and to not pay host\u00ading and sup\u00adport costs), since I think the web as a whole loses some\u00adthing when parts of it dis\u00adap\u00adpear. And mostly these were blogs I read for interest, for the lyr\u00adic\u00adal writ\u00ading, or for the sub\u00adject mat\u00adter. I\u2019ve become used to the idea that the Web is one big archive, and that inform\u00ada\u00adtion will still be there when I come look\u00ading for it again; all I have to do is remem\u00adber which search terms to use, or book\u00admark the site. When that assump\u00adtion is not val\u00adid, it seems odd some\u00adhow, although a few years ago it would have been normal.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s even odder when the blog just ends, and then dis\u00adap\u00adpears, without even a \u201ccan\u00ad\u2019t be bothered any more\u201d final mes\u00adsage. The enplaned<\/em> blog is an example of this. It was an excel\u00adlent blog about the air\u00adline industry, full of inter\u00adest\u00ading inform\u00ada\u00adtion, and one day it just stopped. And not long after\u00adwards the con\u00adtents of the blog were deleted. And if any\u00adbody knows why, they\u2019re not telling\u2026 some thoughts are at the Flight Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal blog (which has now iron\u00adic\u00adally also dis\u00adap\u00adpeared; it used to be at http:\/\/bizbuzzmedia.com\/blogs\/flight_international\/archive\/2006\/05\/11\/2224.aspx.<\/p>\n So if any\u00adone read\u00ading this is think\u00ading of stop\u00adping blog\u00adging, please do your read\u00aders a favour and write a \u201cso long and thanks for all the fish\u201d mes\u00adsage to close up, and at least con\u00adsider leav\u00ading the con\u00adtents of your blog up for pos\u00adter\u00adity. Someone some\u00adwhere will thank you for it, even if you nev\u00ader know about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve noticed a few blogs dis\u00adap\u00adpear\u00ading over the past few months, blogs I used to enjoy read\u00ading and had poin\u00adted out to people. I find it dis\u00adap\u00adpoint\u00ading when people decide to get rid of the entire blog, though of course I defend their right to do so (and to not pay host\u00ading and sup\u00adport costs), \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cEph\u00adem\u00ader\u00adal Blogs\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}