WP-A: A New URL Shortener

[Gregory Ewing]

Chris Angelico wrote:
> There are many places where there are limits (hard or soft) on message
> lengths. Some of us still use MUDs and 80-character line limits.
> Business cards or other printed media need to be transcribed by hand.
> Dictation of URLs becomes virtually impossible when they're
> arbitrarily long.

Your typical shortened URL made up of a random jumble
of letters and numbers isn't good for dictating or
transcribing from a business card either.

For those uses, a well-chosen semantically-memorable
URL is still the best solution. There shouldn't be
too much trouble in arranging one of those that's
short enough to put on a business card.

-- 
Greg