For the first time in Months, I am blogging from a desk at work. I have returned from maternity leave, and have spent the morning re-arranging the objects on my desk and trying to familiarise myself with the manuscripts that have been assigned to me in the Manuscript Tracking System.
A few things have changed since I left, one of which is that we now have a presence on twitter (NatureProtocols). I have not really played with twitter much for myself (BronwenAnn), but am going to spend a little while experimenting with the functionality and trying to work out how it fits into my life (and my work!).
Katie has just shown me how to use bit.ly to make short urls. I think that this is rather neat. Here is my shorter url for Work Blog:
http://bit.ly/workblog
Welcome back, Bronwen! We missed you. Looking forward to your future posts on Work Blog and your adventures among the URLs. (Have you heard of nanolink? Ask Euan Adie, he will encourage you to use it!)
Welcome back Bronwen. And have fun with all these tools. The bit.ly trick is nice. Not only is the URL shorter, but we can have the name of our blog in the link (http://bit.ly/gobbledygook).
Thanks Maxine and Martin.
I have not heard of nanolink! Is it this site?
Has someone somewhere written about whether there is a problem with the “redundancy”? (many people can give the same website different names; could run out of “meaningful” names-in-the-link?) And whether it is possible to be alerted if someone has already made shortened version?