Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Missing in Action

One of the problem with the web is web rot, one tends to lose interesting sources of information almost faster than one gains them.

The latest example of this that has come to my attention is Ryan Dancey's blog, which now seems to be replaced by an ad for online poker. The primary loss IMO was a nice summary of one of the few professional studies of gamers and table-top rpgs. Not all is lost however, much information on it can be found here. Still, Dancey provided some insights there not found elsewhere.

Perhaps it's a passing technical issue, or maybe it will turn up somewhere else. If anyone sees that happen, let me know.

2 comments:

John Morrow said...

The Wayback Machine ( http://web.archive.org/web/*/ ) can often help but in cases like blogs that are JavaScript heavy like this one, it doesn't work.

Gleichman said...

I tried wayback first off, and as you note- it didn't work.

Much the pity in this case.