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leafList of Links, ordered reverse chronologically, like a weblog
hideBelgian examples:
leafBnox.be: logging links for further reference
leafLVB linkblog in parallel to the actual blog, disclosing similar topics of interest
hideUS examples
leafWaxy.org: Links (Andy Baio's linklog: his linklog is more famous than his actual blog, it functions as a webwatch)
leafKottke: "remaindered links" Here the linklog is a kind of dumping place for those topics the blog author didn't have time to write about...
hideMixing Blog and Linklog
leafBelgian example: Shoob (Links are shown on the weblog as a complement to the blog entries)
leafUK example: Tom Coates: daily postings (the daily harvest of links is posted as a daily blog entry)
leaf(both of these examples use the social bookmarking site del.icio.us)
hideLinklog to Blog: a continuum
leaf from strictly private utility: keeping bookmarks online instead of in browser
leafto an easy way of blogging: posting comments and annotations on a URL
hideLinklogs and syndication
leafRSS and blogging have gone hand in hand: what about RSS and linklogging?
hideBlogs:
leafLink: pointing to the blog posting: "permalink"
leafTitle
leafDescription: used to be mostly plain text in older versions of rss and feedreaders (serving as a notification and a short summary so the reader can decide to click through or not) Nowadays: very often containing the full posts in html
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leafLink: the external link
leafTitle: often the original title of the logged page
leafDescription: comments or annotation the linklogger adds
hide "The distinction between blogs and linklogs is whether you syndicate external urls or permalinks" (Provocative statement)
leafLvb: link-blog (because of the way the nucleus "Blog this"-bookmarklet works)
leafKottke: LinkLog
leafShoob Marketing: Linklog (as all feed provided by del.icio.us and "social bookmarking" services are
hideHaving and syndicating a permalink
leafmakes it possible for other people to refer to your annotation
leafpossibly even to comment it (if allowed)
leafmakes it harder to syndicate the actual logged external link (since it has to be extracted from an html description containing both url and annotation
hideSyndicating external url's
leafThe annotation doesn't have a permalink and cannot be referred to
leafmakes it easier to syndicate the links (to other sites or for reuse in the own blog) (description element doesn't need to be parsed)
hideSelf-hosted linklog or bookmarking service
hideSocial bookmarking services have sprung up:
leafdel.icio.us (the pioneer)
leafSimpy
leafFurl (acquired by Looksmart)
leafSocial Bookmarking overview at Wikipedia
hideAlternative: self-hosted
leafvia plugin of your blogging platform
hidea separate application
leafScuttle (php)
leafScuttle example
leafde.lirio.us (perl)
leafde.lirio.us example
hide(Intermezzo) Categories versus tags in blogging and linkloggin
hideCategories:
leafcompare it with boxes you put stuff in
leafyou first create the box, than put something in the box
leafOften: categories are nested
leafCategories are common in blogging tools
hideCategories allow the reader to subscribe to a selection of blog entries
leafExample: Sebastian Bergman
leafWordpress: add "feed" to the category archive url (my del.icio.us postings)
leafCategories are not very flexible because you have to think up beforehand what your blogging universum will consist of
hideTags
leafcompare it with labels you write and attach to something
leafyou can freely create new tags the moment you need them
leaftags are more flexible and more "organic": your collection of tags will change over time
leaftagging is common in linklogging: almost all "social bookmarking" services use tagging
hidetagging is less structured, more chaotic
leaftags for different purposes are put on the same level
leafe.g. tagging by association: words that you think will help remember/retrieve the url
leafe.g. tagging by purpose: toread, toblog,
hideInteresting reads
leafTrees and tags - an introduction
leaf"Ontology is overrated"
hideDisplaying or importing your linklog into your blog
hideLinklog parallel to your blog
leafExample Wordpress plugin
leaf(and similar for other blogging platforms...)
hideDaily postings from del.icio.us
leafhowto for Wordpress
leafhowto for Movable Type
leafCombining blog postings with links tagged under the same category
leafRSS to javascript (handy to syndicate to static websites)
hidedel.icio.us and "the wisdom of crowds"
hidedel.icio.us makes it possible to subscribe to
leaflinklog (brainfeed) of a person (e.g. a friend of mine)
leaflinklog of a person's passion (example: "getting things done", a productivity cult :-)
leaflinklog of all del.icio.us users tagging "getting things done" stuff
leaflinklog on "getting things done" with a tiddlywiki (an offline wiki)
hidedel.icio.us is an annotated layer over the www
leafsee the most popular resources on "getting things done"
hidesee how other people have tagged a page (quick way to judge the relevancy and get an idea of the content before reading) (example: an obviously influential article on javascript and webdesign)
leafdel.icio.us plugin in firefox
leafprobably the basis of their business model (syndicating user's annotations to publishers)
hidedel.icio.us is mineable
leafList of stunning visualisations
leafvisualising a person's tags
leafmining tags on a url over time
leafvisualising related tags
hidedel.icio.us is social
leaftag suggestions while posting: your own, other people's tags, and the intersection (with ajax auto-complete: start typing and press tab)
leafdel.icio.us interface helps to develop common vocabulary (illustrated by this screencast - note the interface has improved since)
leafhelps discovering people with similar interests
leafillustration: Jon Udell's screencast (done with older del.icio.us interface)
hidedel.icio.us is open
leaf"Absolutely del.icio.us": overview of tools built on top of it
hideIssues
hidesubscribing to linkfeeds suffers from
leafduplication url's show up several times, tagged by different users with different tags
leafuse other services on top, such as feeddigest's "dupe filter"
leafin a broader sense: the "echo chamber" effect: subscribing to link feeds of people you know, will feed you with ever the same kind of information (same problem with blogging)
hidelanguage and community
leafdel.icio.us is de facto an English-language geek community
leafwe need to improve open source implementations of social bookmarking services (like scuttle, de.lirio.us etc)
leafsocial bookmarking could become a standard community tool like forums, wiki's...
hideCentralised walled garden versus distributed and self-hosted
leafdel.icio.us being the most open service, there's a lock-in because of its existing userbase
leafcompare to having a self-hosted blog versus one at msn spaces/livejournal/blogger...
leafwhat we need is services aggregating distributed sources like technorati does for blogging, offering a similar functinality del.icio.us offers to its users
leafdiscussion of this issue: "the tagosphere"
leafexample: "Guten Tag"
leafstandardization effort: xFolk
leafanother approach: duplicate your linklist over del.icio.us, myYahoo2.0, furl, etc... (by resynching or simultaneous posting)
hideWrap-up
leaffor bloggers: use a social bookmarking service (del.icio.us is recommended), you 'll only benefit from it
hidefor geeks: we need distributed, open source and interoperable
leafdel.icio.us clones
leaflink posting tools (as blog soft plugin)
leaffor community activists: consider linklogging as a tool