Interesting look at 301works saving and archiving shortened urls

It’s great to see a mainstream media report into something mroe insightful than the latest celebrity uproar on Twitter, so the fact that the Wall Street Journal looked at the 301works.org initiative to preserve and archive short urls is a refreshing change.

Not only that but it also raises some interesting points, including the legal aspect of short urls disapearing – a point which also hadn’t occured to 301works.org director and web legend Stowe Boyd, so I don’t feel too bad for not spotting it sooner!

And considering the increasing number of lawsuits regarding content on Twitter which is defamatory or libellous, this could be an increasingly important aspect of the work 301works.org is doing, in addition to maintaining the usefulness of short urls.