After seeing all the dead links in the blog over the last couple of days, I began to wonder if it might be worthwhile to look back on early blog entries and do some pruning.  Do any of you ever do that?

Park of me thinks it’s probably a time sink, but another part of me thinks it makes sense.  The blog is a reflection of me.  Many of those dead links aren’t worth reviving.  In fact, the posts were kind of silly to begin with — throw away stuff really.  Clutter. I deleted the bad links for entries like that, but I’ve been wondering if the entries themselves shouldn’t just be deleted, too.

I have 126 bad links remaining.  They are predominantly in three categories.  One, what are largely links to good information to a site that’s been redesigned three times since I began blogging.  Some of those links are worth tracking down and editing so they work.  Two, a mixed bag of links to a site that is currently listed as being “down for maintenance.”  I haven’t been to that site in a while, so I’m not sure if that’s a long-term thing, and I should just delete the links, or if the site may be coming back.  I suspect I may never be able to find some of the links even if it comes back, because that site owner goes through periods of significant site changes.  Those may wind up being deleted.  Third are links to news organizations.  I’m not sure if the links are worth looking for, but there’s a chance they may have gone to a paid archive or something, and I’d probably delete those, too.

But I control the content on my site, and I’m wondering if a periodic review might be useful.  Is it just me wondering that, or do other people do that from time to time as well?  Thoughts?