Technologies du Langage: Web: Broken links in online journals

technologies du langage: web: broken links in online journals: i have just read a worrying article in the latest edition of the journal of computer-mediated communication, "hyperlink obsolescence in scholarly online journals", by james ho.[...]frankly, i can’t help but think that if the catastrophic proportion of broken links revealed to us by james ho hasn’t created more of an outcry, it can only be because the inclusion of references is becoming a kind of simple social ritual that must be followed in order to be published, but which in the end no-one really cares about -- not the authors themselves, nor their readers, and least of all referees, who never have enough time to go and check them out. french novelist, poet, playwright and essayist georges perec (who once wrote an ...