Comments on: TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service’s Risks http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/11/19/tinyurl-outage-illustrates-the-services-risks/ Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding By: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/11/19/tinyurl-outage-illustrates-the-services-risks/#comment-189752 Marshall Kirkpatrick Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:05:52 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/11/19/tinyurl-outage-illustrates-the-services-risks/#comment-189752 Damn, dude, you've linked to a fair number of my posts around the web now and every one of them has been to mock me! :) Don't know what I did to deserve it, other than being a goober, I suppose. (Note that I would rather be a goober than a pedant, though, and that's a "synecdoche" to say the least!) In truth, I'm not so sure the original title was incorrect. If linking is the currency of the web but many permalinks are too long to work with modern methods of communication (email, twitter, etc) and if thus people flock to the best known, centralized solution - a simple redirect - and THAT breaks, then I think a big part of the whole web is at issue. Damn, dude, you’ve linked to a fair number of my posts around the web now and every one of them has been to mock me! :) Don’t know what I did to deserve it, other than being a goober, I suppose. (Note that I would rather be a goober than a pedant, though, and that’s a “synecdoche” to say the least!)

In truth, I’m not so sure the original title was incorrect. If linking is the currency of the web but many permalinks are too long to work with modern methods of communication (email, twitter, etc) and if thus people flock to the best known, centralized solution - a simple redirect - and THAT breaks, then I think a big part of the whole web is at issue.

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