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saint_monkey) wrote2005-06-10 08:35 am
saint_monkey) wrote2005-06-10 08:35 am
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People are teh stupid & the statistics exist just to piss me off.
I've been looking at del.icio.us lately. It's the implementation of an old idea. Everybody bookmarks things using a common web-tool, which collects and then rates, counts, etc, these links. You can visit your links from any computer, and others can see the "next new thing" by looking at a compiled linklist of popular bookmarks, or track your interests based upon user-assigned keywords.
An interesting idea, BUT ... All it does for me, is serve as a reminder of how most people bookmark crap.
This morning, delicious lists an inane post from PC World about "Great things you can do with the internet" as being linked to ~400 other people, while one of the sites in the article, one that skillfully combines the interfaces of Google Maps and Craigslist, a truly useful and innovative interface that you might use everyday is linked to by only 114 people.
Hello. Wake up. Don't bookmark tech articles you never intend to read! Bookmark useful utilities and informational sites that can help you out later on. I mean, for pete's sake, only 66 people have bookmarked Thomas.gov, while 72 people have bookmarked a page showing you how to make actual super mario power up blocks. "Sweet! My government is becoming increasingly Orwellian, things are much better in 'World 4-1,' I wish I lived there instead." I want to utilize this service to find useful informational sites. If I want the latest in web articles I don't want to read, I can read metafilter or slashdot, both of which have convenient "search" features so that I can find them later on in case I need me some silliness.
An interesting idea, BUT ... All it does for me, is serve as a reminder of how most people bookmark crap.
This morning, delicious lists an inane post from PC World about "Great things you can do with the internet" as being linked to ~400 other people, while one of the sites in the article, one that skillfully combines the interfaces of Google Maps and Craigslist, a truly useful and innovative interface that you might use everyday is linked to by only 114 people.
Hello. Wake up. Don't bookmark tech articles you never intend to read! Bookmark useful utilities and informational sites that can help you out later on. I mean, for pete's sake, only 66 people have bookmarked Thomas.gov, while 72 people have bookmarked a page showing you how to make actual super mario power up blocks. "Sweet! My government is becoming increasingly Orwellian, things are much better in 'World 4-1,' I wish I lived there instead." I want to utilize this service to find useful informational sites. If I want the latest in web articles I don't want to read, I can read metafilter or slashdot, both of which have convenient "search" features so that I can find them later on in case I need me some silliness.