URL Shortening for Legal Citations
Working on a corporate memo, where I’m citing to online resources, I had the problem of URLs stretching too long in the cite–and overall just looking way too ugly.
For example:
Too long. And too ugly. So I wondered about URL shortening services, that would change that behemoth into something like this:
http://thnlnk.com/barometersurveys/080406/0000002145
Or perhaps better:
http://thnlnk.com/barometersurveys/SOX.and.Private.Companies/StE
Here, we have a URL that will permanently locate the underlying document, “citing” the domain name of the document (barometersurveys), as well as the date accessed (080406) or a description of what the link contains (”SOX and Private Companies”).
Has anyone else run into situations where URL shortening services were used and accepted or rejected?
Note: I wrote ThnLnk, and while there are other URL shortening services out there, ThnLnk is the best for many reasons besides being from my intellectual loins.
August 8th, 2006 at 2:18 pm
[…] More New ThnLnk Types I recently added a new ThnLnk type: ThnLnks with the domain name and a unique ID number. But then I thought a few more seconds about it and added another: http://thnlnk.com/thnlnk/080806/0000002162 ThnLnks with the domain name (a source), a creation date, and the unique ID number. This way you can put even more information in a URL used for a citation. I also blogged about this in a push for using ThnLnk for legal citations. […]
May 30th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
hi
i suggest to use http://ix.lt for shorten yours URL adress!
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June 12th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
As far i know, the shorest url redirection service is http://dn.vc and it feature masking.
August 14th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article URL Shortening for Legal Citations, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
September 15th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Hello, Nice blog posting about URL Shortening for Legal Citations. I would have to agree with you on this one. I am going to look more into url redirection. This Saturday I have time.
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