JavaWorld back-issue access: $49.99 per year. [Blogging Roller]
I've always thought that Tim BL's statement "Cool URIs don't change" was a cornerstone of the web's value as a medium.
I deeply regret JavaWorld's decision: I used to read all they published until I discovered weblogs, and I usually included many links to their articles in my design documents, technical emails and tutorials.
I may not the only one switching from this kind of online tech publication to weblogs as a primary source of information. I still read the articles on O'Reilly's web sites, but I am aware of them through the RSS feed on Merkaat.
I guess Javaworld's move is out of desperation: I don't think this can save them though. I think of myself as a typical reader and the value of it was that I could link to it for my colleagues. So I just won't read it anymore.
I wonder how they will avoid Google Cache and the Wayback Machine. Maybe with robot.txt files instructions to prevent archiving.
This is a gloomy news. Or maybe a happy one: weblogs helped realize the early promise of the web of everyone as a publisher, with the help of RSS NewsReader, and other community forming tools (aggregation blogs, like javablog, Mark Pilgrim's tool to suggest what you should read based on what's on your weblog, Jon Udell's experimentation on charting community forming, etc...) to help people with the filtering and content selection, which was the traditional role of the publisher (that Tim O'Reilly described very well in one of his blog entries).
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