When you call yourself e-Flux you have carte blanche to change URLs whenever. It's like, flux, man.
Many links on tommoody.us to Boris Groys' essay "The Weak Universalism" recently went dead. :(
That's because e-Flux changed the URL of the article, without a "redirect."
The old link was
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/130
The new link is
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/15/61294/the-weak-universalism/
You may recall that e-Flux made a bid for art world power by trying to buy the .art domain -- it paid $185,000 to apply, and lost.
Given its level of cyber-competence we dodged the proverbial bullet in more ways than one!
Update: Also changed with no redirect was Hito Steyerl's essay, "In Defense of the Poor Image."
The old link was
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/94
The new link is
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
It's ironic, of course, that this cyber-failure occurred with respect to two essays about poor and weak art. As noted a few years back (the links don't work):
exhibition idea: the Poor Image ( http://bit.ly/5AwXpU ) vs the Weak Universal Gesture ( http://bit.ly/apxW6f ) - which is paltrier?