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:

http://www.barometersurveys.com/production/barsurv.nsf/vwAllNewsByDocID/F5482EED2EBEE435852570F1006D236F

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.

Education, Journal, Technology | paul | August 4, 2006 12:09 pm

7 Comments

By gedax, May 30, 2007 @ 7:08 pm

hi
i suggest to use http://ix.lt for shorten yours URL adress!
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By Rino, June 12, 2007 @ 12:43 pm

As far i know, the shorest url redirection service is http://dn.vc and it feature masking.
By Daniel, August 14, 2007 @ 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.
By Url Redirection, September 15, 2007 @ 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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