Look, I have one. I cannot code, and yet am a (c0) owner of such a great URL shortener, that even I use it on the occasion. I also (co)own an application that works with Twitter. Wow, I am special. No really, I’m not. No one cares about your shitty blog, and most certainly now one cares about your shitty URL shortener. Yeah Tr.Im, I’m looking at you.
Now our gaze must be directed over to the great stupendous WP.me, which is supposed to change the world. Great, now for all the neat bloggers that cannot figure out how to get their own domain and think that MyShittyBlog.Wordpress.com is just great, they can have a shortened link. Of course, no Wordpress.com site could ever work with, I don’t know, Bit.ly?
Anyway, TechMeme put it on the front page, and I wrote this specifically to complain about such things. Whenever I do something that is not worthy of a headline, do I get one? Hell no. I could sooner get Steve Jobs to stop parking in handicapped spots. But if you are Wordpress.com, and you do something, really anything, you get a headline.
I miss the Wordpress v. Movable Type debacle. At least that had some drama to it.
But if you actually do care, this is what is so goddamn great about WP.me, at least according to the people that are spinning the new code as the next messiah:
WP.me is the only two-letter .me domain in the world.
Every blog and post on WordPress.com has a WP.me URL now.
These are all exposed in the <head> using rel=shortlink.
It doesn’t work for any URL in the world, just WP.com-hosted ones.
The links are permanent, they will work as long as WordPress.com is around.
WP.me is spam-free, because we are constantly monitoring and removing spam from WP.com
You could take all of those bullet points, and make the press release into a single sentance: Wordpress is now shortening links for users, they wont die, and they won’t spam you. Alright, we’re done here.
