Day: April 23, 2005
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Academics on social bookmarking
The authors of Connotea, which I’ve never heard of, write an academic (peer-reviewed?) Social Bookmarking Tools (I) – A General Review. Useful, chock-full of links/examples, and not academic in the dry sense. In the same issue of D-Lib Magazine (also never heard of), the same authors give a more detailed exploration/explanation of their own service…
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If you need to rebuild it…
Chad Dickerson shares a Treo tip, which I appreciate. I haven’t been inconvenienced by a Treo 650 restart yet, but they are happening occasionally. But it’s a bit scary that Chad “rebuilt” his Treo, meaning (I expect) that he reinstalled all the software from the ground up. Progress is two steps forward, one step back…
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Writing in the browser kills you now and again
Just lost a medium-length post which will take a few minutes to re-create. Damn. And one of the recent posts I was reading was Tim Bray on blogging clients, where he hit the nail on the head: Unfortunately, at the moment, writing stuff in the browser mostly sucks. It’s primitive, it’s clumsy, and (mostly) doesn’t…
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Book: America (The book)
Hardly a straight-through read, America (The Book) is worth flipping through for a laugh. Video is a better format for Jon Stewart and crew.