Friday, November 19, 2010

No, I don't have the rest of the blog post written, but as of 2:20 on Friday, moments after finishing the 6th period discussion of British titles, I saw this on the Yahoo front page:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101119/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_queen_camilla

Oh, and now at 3:40, here's a better article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101119/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_queen_camilla

But wait--I see the URLs are the same, and in checking, I see that the first one has morphed into the second without leaving a trace of its earlier self.  Here's why it's going to be hard to use online sources for all sorts of purposes; I intentionally copied the NEW article, and was intending to leave the original (more spare--less background info, less perspective on why it matters).  I wanted to illustrate the difference between first and second drafts in the the up-to-the-minute publishing world.  But apparently the new article superseded the first one.  So eventually I'll delete that link.

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