From time to time I do a little housekeeping on my blogs. Today I moved some old English posts from my French blog to my English blog. I’m not sure if it even matters, but it gives me some satisfaction to tidy things up. I do it as a distraction procrastination like you may browse an endless Facebook or Twitter feed…

Anyways, the reason I am writing this is because it struck me that 9 out of 10 old posts actually have broken links. Back in the days, we bloggers used to cite other bloggers on our blogs. Well… today all these citations lead to 404 pages and even non-existant domains.

All this interconnected blogosphere we collectively built for several years is now slowly degrading into a web of broken links…

Once I get past the nostalgia, I wonder though, why so many of the tech bloggers –and even the hardcore “open web” and “web standards” bloggers– have dropped the ball on their blogs. I mean, I get it they don’t blog any more, but why did they take them offline? The cost of keeping these old blogs alive would be practically zero…