cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by ind{yeah} A rather annoying grain of sand in the ds106 machine of syndication is the loss of web sites when students give up their domains, or just obliterate their blogs after class. It’s a common theme of the distributed web, the stench of link rot – that in our own acts of reorganizing content we manage, that we lose sight that there may be external links into us. Such links are invisible, silent, we do not even know they are there. These has been cropping up more frequently in ds106; for our video assignments, we asked students to review the works of previous students that we (sort of) elegantly syndicate into the Assignment Collection, the ones that appear as Submissions So Far – try the random spinner to take a peek. And that is a thing with a Domain of ...