Sunday, October 12, 2008

Missing links

I have recently been doing some housework, checking the links on my blog, since links which lead nowhere are just ANNOYING

I did not keep count so cannot offer proper statistical analysis, but it seems to me that links to UK government web sites are disproportionately likely to become obsolete

In part this seems to be because much of what is publicly available is on press releases carrying the name of a minister who has since moved on (probably more than once)

But the same applies in at least 2 cases to what are just technical documents giving regulatory details

And this lot promised us joined up government