I really think there is some room here for blogs and news sites to provide their own short urls that people can use to link to them. They might be able to reap

I really think there is some room here for blogs and news sites to provide their own short urls that people can use to link to them. They might be able to reap the benefits of a higher page rank. Another good side affect is that urls might get cleaned up a bit in hopes that they will get copied straight into a tweet. I would love a web with short copy and pastable urls.