Archive for October, 2005
The Expanding Web
Sunday, October 16th, 2005I’ve realized I’ve gotten into a bit of a rut when it comes to web surfing lately. I could probably count on my fingers and toes the number of sites I regularly visit to keep up on events, technology, coding, linux… Luckily, one of those places I check off and on is mozilla.org to keep up with firefox. I recently decided to give the 1.5 beta of Firefox a spin, and while attempting to updated some of my favorite extensions, I ran across one for StumbleUpon a collaborative site review and grouping system that includes a button to randomly pick a site based on your preferences and sites you’ve recommended. Unlike other “random” link systems, this one tends to take you to a quality site you will actually be interested in.
Well, I was hooked, so I installed it at work and at home, but while my bookmarks lists grew in both places, I felt it might be more useful put my bookmarks online so I can share them - enter another website and cool extension Del.icio.us and Foxylicious, an extension that make it easy to add and maintain my Del.icio.us social bookmarks. Del.icio.us makes keeping and sharing bookmarks easy, but it also ranks and list new links and most popular links, as well as popular tags. I can see another time sink-hole opening…
Tinker-itis
Thursday, October 13th, 2005I gave my 91Courtstreet WebGUI template tinker-itis so I’m taking it as a sign that I can play with some other tools. We needed an industrial strength wiki at work, so I gave WikiMedia a test drive. I liked it so much I bought… I mean I recommended it for work and left it as the front page to replace my broken WebGUI template. I’ve always liked wikis - especially the cognitive dissonance they encourage amoung leadership-types when told that the relinguishing of control over the quality of information can result in something other than anarchy.