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# Digital journalism's history replaced by a spam blog. The irony.
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/11/digital_journalisms_history_replaced_by/
- Published: 2013-11-18T23:41:21.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:06:06.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: archives, digital journalism, domain names

Finishing the day’s blogging on a sad note:

> So it appeared that Lim (or someone working for him) had obtained control of OJR.org — presumably just by buying the domain once it had expired, although we don’t know that — and created as close of a facsimile of the old site as he could, with a lot of the old content. Then he’d added one new fresh “article” on November 12 that promoted his product — and hoped that no one would notice.

Yes, the Online Journalism Review – one of the earliest sites to deal seriously with the digital transition, has been [replaced by a spammy site promoting a startup](http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/11/ojr-an-old-web-icon-ends-up-repurposed-as-a-spamblog/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), because its current stewards didn’t get the domain name renewed.

People in this business need to get a whole world more serious about protecting their archives. Those who forget history…