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Re: Permalink

Joshua said Apr 4, 2006, 4:57 PM:

A permalink is a unique web address for a piece of content. Often between blogs, comments, and social groupings, the addresses for a given work can become pretty unwieldy. We provide simpler permalinks to make sharing the address easier. The links can be copied into emails, shared in other blogs, or just clicked on for the base page of the content.

Often permalinks are more human readable than the automatically generated links created by the software systems themselves.

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Re: Permalink

flex22 said Apr 17, 2006, 6:51 AM:

Thanks for the explanation.Permalinks are very handy, don't know why they aren't on many more webpages.Often I'll want to send some info from a very long page to a friend, but I have to say “oh you have to find (these words) scroll down or 'ctrl +f' to find it.”
So cumbersome.Permalinks are very handy.Thanks for implementing them.

Re: Permalink

Zoe [no longer around] said Aug 12, 2006, 9:28 AM:

I never knew this and still am not quite sure how to use it. I click on it and then what? Is like using the chain-link thing up there? …always feel kinda dumb about these sorts of questions. Anyway, thanks for help!

Re: Permalink

Brian said Aug 12, 2006, 9:39 AM:

hey zoe

it's the “perma(nent) link” that you can use to directly link to the post if you ever want to.

Like, if i want to link to one of your favorite quotes, I click on its permalink and shazam i can copy and paste it and link to it! :)

make sense?!?