By Josh Centers on October 17th, 2009
Techcrunch reports that the federal government has launched its own link shortening service. Not to be outdone by its hundreds of competitors, like the outgoing tr.im, the original Tiny URL, or the currently chic bit.ly, government employees can now use the oh so svelte http://go.usa.gov.
So http://recovery.gov gets “shortened” to…http://go.usa.gov/liO. Wait, that’s not shorter at all, it’s two characters longer! YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
Granted, this isn’t a bad idea…in theory. First, who knows how long any
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By Josh Centers on October 16th, 2009
If you’re a blogger who draws unemployment from the State of New York, beware. An unemployed lawyer, named Karin (Last name withheld) told Forbes that New York State has withheld her unemployment benefits after declaring that her blog constituted self-employment.
The New York Department of Labor initially told her that her Google AdSense revenue was residual, and that it would not affect her unemployment. However, the NYDOL later launched an investigation into her “business” to determine if she is still
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