WholeThinking essays with keyword tag: URL shortening

Foreign Domains, Sure.ly You Jest

By | October 6, 2010 | Cultural Interface

What does Violet Blue, a self proclaimed Open Source Sex expert and an authoritarian Islamic government, such as Libya, have in common? Well, just about nothing, unless you want your domain name to include the suffix ly, all the rage in name branding domains these days. Here also lies all the makings for a considerable conflict […]

Beware: That Twitter account may be a robot

By | September 20, 2009 | Digital LandScape

It was only a matter of time that unsullied ground that was Twitter was to become as dark and dangerous as the general web. It just shows that less characters and banal comments can still land you in a world of hurt if you click on the wrong link. Twitter was not the first place […]