Dear Internets,
What is the point of the tinyurl service?
Why should I click on some link whose destination you have purposefully obscured? Wouldn't that make me less likely to follow it?
Why use a short but meaningless URL, when you have already chosen to use correct HTML formatting to provide an anchor for the link, so that the gross but (perhaps) significant URL is hidden anyway?
Will your URL redirection service still be around in a few years (or months)? Will the Internet Archive store the correct destination of your link?
I can see some sort of benefit to reading URLs over the phone or printing them on business cards or something, but we're talking about blog posts here. Also, both of my mail readers are quite happy to open URLs from my email without copy-and-pasting, so long URLs aren't a problem there either.
Inquisitively,
Mark
Why should I click on some link whose destination you have purposefully obscured? Wouldn't that make me less likely to follow it?
Why use a short but meaningless URL, when you have already chosen to use correct HTML formatting to provide an anchor for the link, so that the gross but (perhaps) significant URL is hidden anyway?
Will your URL redirection service still be around in a few years (or months)? Will the Internet Archive store the correct destination of your link?
I can see some sort of benefit to reading URLs over the phone or printing them on business cards or something, but we're talking about blog posts here. Also, both of my mail readers are quite happy to open URLs from my email without copy-and-pasting, so long URLs aren't a problem there either.
Inquisitively,
Mark