Long life for short links
I wrote recently about the problems of using shortened URLs to reference sources in dissertations.
The main concern was what would happen if the companies offering these services died off, and took the URLs down with them.
That problem may be about to go away away with the launch yesterday (November 11) of 301Works.org, a service that will archive shortened URLs.
The launch announcement says that more than 20 URL-shortening organizations are involved in the project, and “industry leader, Bit.ly, has already begun donating archives of their URL mappings (pairs of long URLs and the generated shortened URLs)”.
Shrink that link
http://rbrussell.dev.lincoln.ac.uk/2009/10/06/shrink-that-link/
From Tim O’Reilly via Twitter
http://twitter.com/timoreilly/
http://www.301works.org/
I wrote recently about a student request to use shortened URLs to reference sources in dissertations.
The main concern was what would happen if the companies offering these services died off, and took the URLs down with them.
That problem may be about to go away away with the launch yesterday (November 11) of 301Works.org, a service that will archive shortened URLs.
The launch announcement says that more than 20 URL-shortening organizations are involved in the project, and “industry leader, Bit.ly, has already begun donating archives of their URL mappings (pairs of long URLs and the generated shortened URLs)”.
From Tim O’Reilly via Twitter.
[…] little project was in response to reading Bernie’s blog post about how a student wanted to use short links in his […]