November 22, 2003
Restoring some rotten links
From Scott Rosenberg I learn that there is a way to restore some of the NYTimes links that have rotted away since an earlier post -- as long as it is after June 23, 2003. Aaron Swarz has a site that provides a link generator for NY Times articles after June 23. This utility is quite nice and provides you an easy way to take a standard NYTimes link and create the USERLAND link that will work forever when linked into a blog.
For instance, I entered the following link into the generator:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/international/europe/21ISSU.html
The generator provided this in return:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/international/europe/21ISSU.html?ex=1384750800&en=4c253e2277379f06&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
And it provides it in the encoded HTML coding ready to drop into your post.
Really nice job, Aaron.