Unfortunate weblink

Someone should really think a little harder before coming up with these things.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-steelers-harrisonshits

 

Well, in truth, he did kind of hit all over himself with those comments.

 

It's all computerized. And there is a good chance someone saw it and can't change it because they are web editors not web programmers screwing with metadata and SEO.

 

At my library we have a system of cataloging where we take the first three letters of a person's last name to file their books, CDs, etc. Makes it a bit touchy when the person's last name is something like Assenmacher or Assad. Especially when the person has a Christian CD and the abbreviation on the label comes out to:

CHRIST
ASS

 

At one of my old shops, someone made up an internal phone list referring to one person as the "Ass. Man. Editor."

 

Somebody fixed something. That's a page not found now.

 

Still works for me. You have to copy and paste it, not click the link, which seems to not include the offending part.

 

Our digital photo naming system uses the reporter's initials, then a word or two about the photo.

This photo was about a "Shop with a Cop" holiday program: asShop. The sport editor came out of his office and loudly asked why we gave a photo that name. Another gem: jsExpo.

 

Even if/when programmers could change it, there's a likelihood you wouldn't want to because of that very reason -- the metadata and SEO and then you've had a live link out there for x number of hours and all of a sudden it's a dead link. Bad for business.

 

Actually a reasonably accurate descriptor for myself and many others I've known in the business.

 

In a college football game a few weeks back, Fordham was playing host to Assumption. On the ESPN Mobile App FCS scoreboard, the game used the team abbreviations FOR and ASS.