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 __     __ __     __ __     __  web's eye view
| | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / /  January 8, 2001 
| |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ /   Maricopa Center for 
|__/|__/  |__/|__/  |__/|__/      Learning & Instruction
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http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/
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The freshest bag of URLs is ready for pickup at
   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/curr.html


Help us refill by dropping interesting sites into:
   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/drop.html

The Eye is Back
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Well, we had not really gone away, but perhaps there were a few
less blinks while I was away the last 6 months on sabbatical. If
you are curious how my time was spent, see

  http://dommy.com/az2nzau/

But really what we could use from our subscribers is more
contributions of interesting education-related or web
developmemt web sites. We cannot find them all and
are missing thousands, millions of sites worth sharing.

So they next time you come scross something interesting, please
drop it in the "bag" for others here to see:

  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/drop.html

(A fine time here to click and bookmark, hint hint)

In the meantine, we will put our elves to work to winnow out
those bad links.

Fight Linkrot!
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Linkrot is what happens when web site designers perform a
makerover and rename/move web pages without considering
that someone, or several people, have bookmarked the site,
much less the many search engines that link to a once
published site.

It does not take much to fix, a simple place holder page
of explanation, a meta-tag re-direct, or even a simple symbolic
link (alias) on a webserver, such as the ones we set up for
"expired" content:

  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/HTMLcreate.html

It's one thing for a one person web-shop to maintain, 
but you'd think a big company like Sun could keep up 
their links.  Readers of our Writing HTML tutorial 

  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

notified us months ago that the Sun Web Style Guide
  
  http://www.sun.com/styleguide/

was gone. Searches and emails to Sun only got some feedback that
the site was pulled for re-design (and has yet to resurface),
so we had this site nominated as a "ghost site" (scroll to bottom)

  http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/gs001220.shtml

Fight Linkrot today!

Online Required
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Fairleigh Dickinson University (http://www.fdu.edu/) will be 
requiring all students to complete  at least one online course
per year...  "to allow the students to become 'global scholars,' 
capable of using the Internet for a variety of
purposes, including learning, research and communications."