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WIRED News has an interesting article about "link rot":

Two researchers at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln tracked

so-called link rot after they discovered that hyperlinks

disappeared before they finished developing distance education

courses.

The study, "Broken links: The ephemeral nature of educational

WWW hyperlinks," will be published in the Journal of Science

Education and Technology in June.

More here:

The study: