Are you frustrated with links to the New York Times that expire when they are moved into the archive? There is a way around this that I have been using for the last few years. This past week I told two savvy nonprofit Web users about it. Both were pleased to learn.

To create a New York Times link that will not expire, visit the New York Times Link Generator (presented by Reddit). Follow its directions and place the link it creates into your postings. (I have some links on this site that have remained active for more than two years. On this article I posted in April 2004, the link still works.)

The link generator page listed above links to a Dave Winer page that provides some explanation for why the NYT would allow links into its archive. It looks like Dave used his role in developing and hosting early RSS feeds to get the arrangement. Let's hope it continues to work.

P.S. Sometimes the link generator does not work. I have found that if you tack "&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss" to the end of the article URL it will often work.