Archiving Web Shortcuts: Internet Archive Launches 301Works.Org , Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (Dec 7)
What happens to the links when a company that shortens urls for us goes bust?
"To the rescue comes the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) with its backing of a new service called 301Works.org (www.301works.org). Boyd explained the origin of the initiative. "Originally there was a working group of shortening companies. I was involved indirectly. We were discussing how an archive should be configured to help users. In the midst of this, the Internet Archive got involved. They said they would be happy to do the archiving and asked me to be director. It moved from the original group to a set of principles and an agreement version which lets us upload pairings. c is an initiative of the Internet Archive, as well as being a working group of the companies participating.""
Posted by Gwen at December 8, 2009 01:02 AM