Social Bookmarking

I have been using Blinklist for quite a while now, and it keeps growing on me. I had previously use del.icio.us, but never really got into it. Blinklist seemed a little more polished, and a little more explicit about how it could be used. I took some of their suggestions, and have not looked back.

I like the Tagging system that is emerging. I disliked the traditional hierarchical system of filing stuff for a long time. It seems that we spend a lot of time figuring out the perfect place to file something, and when we go to retrieve it, we have to go through the same process again, usually coming up with different conclusions. As a result, we are spending too much time filing, and too much time retrieving. Rather than trying to become more organized, it makes sense to me that we use computer technology to manage our disorder. That is what I feel the tagging system does.

One of the nice features of the social bookmarking is the ability to view my bookmarks from multiple computers. With Firefox, I can create a live bookmark to my Blinklist RSS feed, and even if I bookmarked something at home, It will show up at work. Or Vice versa.

The other neat thing is that I can watch what other people are bookmarking. If I notice someone else shares interests with my I can subscribe the rss feed on their bookmark page, and leach the good stuff out of their web browsing.

The only real downside right now is that a majority of the folks who use these are early adopters. As a result, there is Way too many links to stuff like Ruby, Ajax, and Linux, but there are substantially fewer links to things like Bible study sites, Aviation sites, and cooking sites..

If you are not a computer nerd, please sign up and share your normal links. It is really easy. (Really!_