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Critical article from Apr 2009:

on url shorteners -- joshua schachter's blog http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners

Print publishers might have a case for URL shorteners but they should own and maintain their own instead of a 3rd party service they can’t control or prevent from disappearing.

Plenty of articles in the Communications of the ACM magazine use 3rd party shortened URLs and it’s unacceptable. They should know better and should host their own link shortener via their digital library system.