Comments on: 301Works http://www.cloudiness.com/2009/11/14/found/301works/ Just like the old cloudiness, but bloggier Mon, 16 Aug 2010 18:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Art http://www.cloudiness.com/2009/11/14/found/301works/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Art Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:01:37 +0000 http://www.cloudiness.com/?p=372#comment-274 And so on. Arguably the IA needs the info in order to keep their archive of the Internet intact, to help patch over a problem inherent in their own scraping of millions of web pages containing third-party shortened URLs in links. There is plenty already written elsewhere about the many other problems with URL shorteners. And so on. Arguably the IA needs the info in order to keep their archive of the Internet intact, to help patch over a problem inherent in their own scraping of millions of web pages containing third-party shortened URLs in links. There is plenty already written elsewhere about the many other problems with URL shorteners.

]]> By: Waider http://www.cloudiness.com/2009/11/14/found/301works/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Waider Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:46:36 +0000 http://www.cloudiness.com/?p=372#comment-273 There are a few other problems with these services: crap programming can mean the URL you thought you were pasting doesn't actually go where you wanted it to. Systems failures can be worse than downtime if you lose part or all of your database. Funneling traffic through these sites has privacy implications. And so on. I'm also not convinced that there's not better things the Internet Archive could be doing with their finite cash, but that's a handwavy thing. There are a few other problems with these services: crap programming can mean the URL you thought you were pasting doesn’t actually go where you wanted it to. Systems failures can be worse than downtime if you lose part or all of your database. Funneling traffic through these sites has privacy implications. And so on.

I’m also not convinced that there’s not better things the Internet Archive could be doing with their finite cash, but that’s a handwavy thing.

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