Posts Tagged ‘delicious’
My Likes #visualization #folksonomy
I like visualizations as they make it possible to showcase data in a way which is clear. And I remember that although a picture might tell a thousand words an image needs to be framed in a context. The context for the images below is folksonomy, and as you can see from the images I love my tags.
On the left is the Wordle graphic for my del.icio.us tags, on the right the Wordle for this blog.
Pretty clear when my interests lie. How about you? Post your Wordles in the comments below.
Amplify amplifies my del.icio.us content curation
I’ve not been using amplify for longer than a few days, and I’m seeing an advantage and the execution of an idea I had in 2000, when I still used cociter by cogitum. I created a small citation bookmarklet which posted the source to a webserver which processed the information and added it to my database which I could include in, what I at that time called news posts, blog posts.
At that time I did some content curation, although I wanted to have my comment included in any curation list that I made – I tended to speak when I should have been listening – the reasons for selecting the item; what it could be used for; why they are wrong and I am right. 
Naturally with the advent of del.icio.us I was enthralled and with the addition of FriendFeed I was able to “microblog” which was closer to blogging than to tweets.
Using any new platform I like to see how others are using it, what are they posting, what features are they using and how they are posting. And I’m noticing that many of the things I’ve been taking about in my blog regarding the use of del.icio.us as content curation application, used for more than just Social Bookmarking, and rebroadcast is being performed with Amplify. I’m not saying that I don’t miss things in amplify, I most certainly do, but these are focussed on my desire to not just curate the content of others, but also my own content.
The disadvantage that FriendFeed has is that there is no way to restrict what is published from what source. This means that for somebody like me, who syndicates to many sources, many duplicate entries appear in FriendFeed. The disadvantage of Amplify is that I can’t passively integrate these sources based on input, I need to go out and find my content and curate it. Many of the content curation platforms allow me to do this, but are ugly or made by programmers like me who dislike designing elaborate GUI interfaces.
Now I shall go back to listening and let others speak.
(posted with Amplify)
Amplify amplifies my del.icio.us content curation
I’ve not been using amplify for longer than a few days, and I’m seeing an advantage and the??execution??of an idea I had in 2000, when I still used cociter by cogitum. I created a small citation bookmarklet which posted the source to a webserver which processed the information and added it to my database which I could include in, what I at that time called news posts, blog posts.
At that time I did some content curation, although I wanted to have my comment included in any curation list that I made – I tended to speak when I should have been listening – the reasons for selecting the item; what it could be used for; why they are wrong and I am right.
Using any new platform I like to see how others are using it, what are they posting, what features are they using and how they are posting. And I’m noticing that many of the things I’ve been taking about in my blog regarding the use of del.icio.us as content curation application, used for more than just Social Bookmarking, and rebroadcast is being performed with Amplify. I’m not saying that I don’t miss things in amplify, I most certainly do, but these are focussed on my desire to not just curate the content of others, but also my own content.
The disadvantage that FriendFeed has is that there is no way to restrict what is published from what source. This means that for somebody like me, who syndicates to many sources, many duplicate entries appear in FriendFeed. The disadvantage of Amplify is that I can’t passively integrate these sources based on input, I need to go out and find my content and curate it. Many of the content curation platforms allow me to do this, but are ugly or made by programmers like me who dislike designing elaborate GUI interfaces.
Now I shall go back to listening and let others speak.
(posted with Amplify)
Digg with del.ico.us and Reddit #social #bookmarking
Since the change of Digg to New Digg there have been many prominents complaining about features having been removed and features being added. One of the features I like, which many of the older Digg users say they dislike is the ability to import RSS feeds into your account. The first thing I did was add my blog, and then I started thinking about the things that produce RSS feeds with interesting items, like del.icio.us. Read the rest of this entry »
Blogging using del.icio.us #microblogging #tagging
del.icio.us, as I still call it, is a social bookmarking, tagging or folksonomy site. Friends of mine and I believe folksonomy is part of the move towards a semantic web, but that’s not what I want to talk about here.
Most readers have noticed that I post my del.icio.us links to my blog, but I have been doing more than that for the people who have been paying attention. I have been adding messages in the notes section as microblog entries for my blog, giving a brief description of the context in which I found it.
del.icio.us microblog example
This is a nice simple way to add more information to my blog, and feel the need to elaborate with pages of text.
