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Search engines should make shortened URIs somewhat persistent
URI shorteners are crap. Each and every shortened URI expresses a design flaw. All –or at least most– public URI shorteners will shut down sooner or later, because shortened URIs are hard to monetize....
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As if sloppy social media users ain’t bad enough … search engines support...
Prepare for a dose of techy tin foil hattery. [Skip rant] Again, I’m going to rant about a nightmare that Twitter & Co created with their crappy, thoughtless and shortsighted software designs: URI...
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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener
This pamphlet is somewhat geeky. Don’t necessarily understand it as a part of my ongoing jihad holy war on URI shorteners. Assuming you’re slightly familiar with my opinions, you already know that...
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How to disagree on Twitter, machine-readable
With standard hyperlinks you can add a rel="crap nofollow" attribute to your A elements. But how do you tell search engine crawlers and other Web robots that you disagree with a link’s content, when...
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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague
The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media” is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism. For example Twitter, where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but...
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While doing evil, reluctantly: Size, er trust matters.
These Interwebs are a mess. One can’t trust anyone. Especially not link drops, since Twitter decided to break the Web by raping all of its URIs. Twitter’s sloppy URI gangbang became the Web’s biggest...
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