New! I've added a Link-Log for daily digests from del.icio.us, connotea...
01-December-2005
permalink trackbacks (1) email thisI've been wanting to do this for a while now, but thanks the del.icio.us API and Steve's hard work there is now an accompanying elearning2.0 linklog.
I'm a pretty serious resource collector and tagger, especially in del.icio.us, with quite a few colleagues and clients following my linkstreams. We here at KnowNet are very serious about exploring new ways to integrate the web2.0-ish social software services with community portals and learning environments, and so we try to understand the potential by being active users of the services ourselves.
It has often occurred to me that I frequently see "blog entries" which are really bookmarks - in fact, because there is little work put into the tagging of these casual notings-of-other-content, they often have considerably less intellectual added-value than a well-tagged social bookmark. I can see why some bloggers are wont to "blog it on" by quickly quoting and linking - this passes on the hot links through chains of like-minded bloggers, allowing for some commentary along the way. And of course these posts are exposed to google indexing (whereas del.icio.us does not allow search engines to index its content), which makes life much easier for people looking for contexts in which people link to things. On the other hand, "blogging it on" does not naturally lend itself to the accumulation of categorically dense or rich resource bases - blog categories are like sections or departments, whereas del.icio.us tagging practices tend to throw a number of tags at each resource to reflect multiple uses and facets, and so del.icio.us tagging can lead to rich categorical schemas. For an example, see another view of my del.icio.us bookmarking - as a rich set of tag clouds - at the SIGOSSEE project Standards and Architectures Working Group resource base.
So we've added the linkroll as a blog-like view of the same resources that the SIGOSSEE resource base gives a library-like view of.
An extra benefit is that you can track more of my bookmarking by subscribing to the linklog's RSS 2 feed than by subscribing to my main del.icio.us feed. I often bookmark more than 20 items a day - sometimes a lot more than 20 items. del.icio.us feeds only deliver the latest 20 items, so unless you refresh often you'll miss some bookmarks when subscribing to del.icio.us feeds for busy bookmarkers. This is not a problem when subscribing to the full-content feed for the linklog; no matter how many items I bookmarked on a particular day, that day's digest is one entry in the linklog feed.
We'll make the linklog a feature of knotes, by the way, so that other users can make use of it - chron jobs / retrospective batch processing to pull del.icio.us bookmarks into daily digest blog entries using del.icio.us' API.
And we'll be trying to do the same for Connotea, citeulike, etc. Watch this space!
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