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Long day’s journey into bitly

Posted on July 25, 2012 by otinokyad

…with apologies to Eugene O’Neill. For the past two years, I have checked in from time to time with bitly and added to my posts about what I found. What started as an amusing projection — how could the URL-shortening … Continue reading →

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Infrared and in visible

Posted on July 14, 2012 by otinokyad

A week ago today, one of the people I follow on Twitter — Tom McLaughlan (@daruma) — caught my eye with these 76 characters, quoting someone else to be mentioned below: “I wonder how many writers get together to compare … Continue reading →

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Weather dross

Posted on March 3, 2012 by otinokyad

For several years, I subscribed to the premium service of The Weather Channel, weather.com Gold. But some time early this year, it went missing, with no announcement or fanfare or whatever: “weather.com Gold is no longer available for new subscribers. … Continue reading →

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The bitly dea(r)th watch

Posted on February 13, 2012 by otinokyad

This is my fifth post about bitly (bit.ly, bitly.com), the URL-shortening service, in the past 18 months. The first three, written in early July 2010, were focused on two simple questions: (1) how large was bitly’s pool of unique hash-string … Continue reading →

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