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URL Shorteners Get Some Backup
URL shorteners are problematical, as everybody knows, but with the rise of Twitter and its ilk they seem to be a necessary part of the landscape. Some of the biggest questions around services such as bit.ly, TinyURL, and is.gd is what happens when they go out of business (as tr.im did last August). Now a group of such companies, organized under the auspices of the Internet Archive, has formed a non-profit entity to hold URL-shortening databases in escrow, with the intent of continuing to resolve a member company's links should it get out of the business. At announcement, the 301Works organization has 21 URL-shortener members, including the largest, bit.ly. Many others are not (yet) on board. The members have agreed to cede control of their domain names to 301Works.org should they exit the field, and to back up their URL mappings regularly to the organization.
Did anyone else read this in the voice of James Lipton, the host of Inside the Actor's Studio?
...Expialadocious?
Good grief.
Expede these words! My inwit directs me that our own tung should be written siker cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, which can only leave the readers yblent. I kan reach no other endsay. The foresayers wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt. Now if ye wil excuse me, mine wyf and I must celebrate our marriage yeartide.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
problematicalisticious
All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that too much to ask ~~ Randall Munroe
Little known fact, but Fergie's original lyrics used "problematicalisticious," but the studio had her change it.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
That's ironical, isn't it?
A little too ironical I really do think.