Thing 11 : Shortening a URL

To practice shortening a URL I chose the library webpage: http://bit.ly/gF75hQ and the library blog: http://bit.ly/edEZfv. This would be valuable if you tweeted or if you needed to give someone a web address verbally, such as over the telephone. It would be less helpful for email--instead you could hyperlink a word to serve as a URL(Thank-you Suzanne!). I found bitly easy to use. By shortening the URL you conceal the identity of an address--is that sneaky or smart?