del.icio.us is bloody brilliant! I've heard about this for some time but had no real concept of what it was and what it can do. Now that I've explored it a bit I have to say it's...well....bloody brilliant. How many times have I blown up my machines only to reload myriad browsers and have my bookmarks lost - oh sure, you can "save" them but that doesn't always work. But del.icio.us does much, much more than simply save your bookmarks - it puts them in some kind of logical order that's a helluva lot easier to find than having them strewn about in folders. Then there's the whole tagging business which just heightens the experience. If I get nothing else out of Blue 2.0, I have learned the joy of blogging and del.icio.us - worth the price of admission for sure.
Now, there may be other del.icio.us-like products out there but I'm not familiar with them (like I said, I never gave this sort of thing much thought before now) so I can't say whether or not del.icio.us is the do all and end all of social bookmarking. I have to admit, "social" is a little scary - I mean, I like the convenience and all but I don't know just how much of me I wanna put out there - kinda like this blog - I would never say something here that I might say in a diary - God knows the world is full of freaks and you just never know what someone is gonna read and just freak out over. But I digress....suffice it to say, I remain concerned with the worldwide social aspects all this great technology offers. It reminds me of how much I loved the wild west when I was kid and wish, even more now, that a person could just ride off into the sunset and create a whole new life and have it be possible nobody would ever see or hear from you again. Fat chance of finding that kind of privacy now - big brother is ever creeping closer to our bedrooms and the wild west is long gone. Unless I can grow gills and live 3000 feet below the water's surface I think that fantasy is just that - a fantasy. Listen to me - I'm digressing again!
ok, ok, moving on - Google Docs - I've known about this for a long time now and played with it a bit back when I first heard about it. As I recall, I had some tech issues with it at the time- saving wasn't very safe i.e. it didn't save whatever I had written - but it's working now (chances are, I was the problem - I usually am). If I were in a position to share writings Google Docs would be good. For now - I'm sticking with local clients. However, this goes a LONG way to stifling Microsoft's monopoly over Office docs and there can't be anything bad about that. I'm all for freeware - if you're going to be social, dammit, go all out.
And with that, I close - del.icio.us rocks!
Now, there may be other del.icio.us-like products out there but I'm not familiar with them (like I said, I never gave this sort of thing much thought before now) so I can't say whether or not del.icio.us is the do all and end all of social bookmarking. I have to admit, "social" is a little scary - I mean, I like the convenience and all but I don't know just how much of me I wanna put out there - kinda like this blog - I would never say something here that I might say in a diary - God knows the world is full of freaks and you just never know what someone is gonna read and just freak out over. But I digress....suffice it to say, I remain concerned with the worldwide social aspects all this great technology offers. It reminds me of how much I loved the wild west when I was kid and wish, even more now, that a person could just ride off into the sunset and create a whole new life and have it be possible nobody would ever see or hear from you again. Fat chance of finding that kind of privacy now - big brother is ever creeping closer to our bedrooms and the wild west is long gone. Unless I can grow gills and live 3000 feet below the water's surface I think that fantasy is just that - a fantasy. Listen to me - I'm digressing again!
ok, ok, moving on - Google Docs - I've known about this for a long time now and played with it a bit back when I first heard about it. As I recall, I had some tech issues with it at the time- saving wasn't very safe i.e. it didn't save whatever I had written - but it's working now (chances are, I was the problem - I usually am). If I were in a position to share writings Google Docs would be good. For now - I'm sticking with local clients. However, this goes a LONG way to stifling Microsoft's monopoly over Office docs and there can't be anything bad about that. I'm all for freeware - if you're going to be social, dammit, go all out.
And with that, I close - del.icio.us rocks!
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