The blog hosting platform Typepad is shutting down at the end of September. It was the hosted version of Movable Type back in the day. Like WordPress’s .com to its .org. Another site death underlining the importance of ensuring your own continued access to your creative output. For instance by maintaining your own site. Site deaths are a certainty, just not the time frame.

Checking my site, I linked to Typepad blogs in 48 blogposts, mostly in the early period 2003-2010, and only a few times after. The people I linked to more than once, in other words those I interacted with, almost all have moved on to their own sites a long time ago.

I will switch over the links in those 48 posts to archived versions (with archive.org). I’ve done a few by hand, enough to know I don’t really want to do all of them by hand. However, figuring out how to automate it may be more time consuming. Also because I want to link to an archived version as close as possible to the moment of linking. Archive.org has an API so maybe I’ll give that a try.