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Tuesday, April 28, 2026

DualAddress — On Rusty URLs and Formal Anchors


DualAddress works because the corpus does not pretend that durability has only one form. The DOI is formal, institutional, persistent and citable; the Blogspot URL is rougher, older, more exposed, but it carries the living body of the work. Ninety-eight per cent of the system may still sit on a rusty blog interface, while two per cent is fixed through DOI objects. Yet the combination works because each address performs a different task. The URL is where the corpus breathes. It gives rhythm, seriality, search visibility, public access and everyday continuity. It is imperfect, but it is indexed, reachable, fast, familiar to Google and already thick with years of accumulated traces. Its weakness is also its force: it is exposed enough to be crawled, old enough to have history, and flexible enough to host mutation. The DOI does something else. It does not replace the blog. It anchors it. It says: this object, this version, this title, this author, this date. It gives the corpus a formal citational spine without forcing the entire field into institutional rigidity. The DOI fixes selected nodes; the URL keeps the field alive. So the 98/2 imbalance is not a problem. It is architectural. The blog is the terrain; the DOI is the survey marker. The blog holds the weather, sediment, noise and growth. The DOI holds the legal-citational coordinate. Together they produce a double ontology: one address for movement, one for persistence. That is why DualAddress works.