Dear Friends:We have decided to use a special service to shrink our urls for more effective twittering. The url is the fancy (but oftimes lengthy) http://...etc...etc/... address that you, the innocent and curious reader, click upon to access an article or website in cyberspace.
Just for the sake of wholesome scientific experimentation, click on http://twitlik.com/808 and see what you get.
The service that provides this "instant url circumcision" capability for us is http://twitlik.com/ . We do not endorse them, or pass on their merits. Their name even sounds remotely vulgar. The truncation process is painless, though, even without an anesthetic.
But one has to wonder...is a shorter url a better url?
Speaking for myself (as I sometimes do), I prefer the lengthy old-style url...it contained so much information...it had character...it was a bit like a "sneak preview," whereas these newfangled shortened urls leave us clueless as to their content and origin.
For the sake of contrast, here's an old-fashioned url that I particularly like:
http://thenationalnetworkerweblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/irrelevant-post.html.
As you can see, it carries a wealth of information and intrigue.
Perhaps, as they say on at least one late-night television commercial, "bigger IS better."
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
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