- Linklogs
- Linklogs?
- List of Links, ordered reverse chronologically, like a weblog
- Belgian examples:
- US examples
- Mixing Blog and Linklog
- Linklog to Blog: a continuum
- from strictly private utility: keeping bookmarks online instead of in browser
- to an easy way of blogging: posting comments and annotations on a URL
- Linklogs and syndication
- RSS and blogging have gone hand in hand:
what about RSS and linklogging?
- Blogs:
- Link: pointing to the blog posting: "permalink"
- Title
- Description:
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
- Linklogs
- Link: the external link
- Title: often the original title of the logged page
- Description: comments or annotation the linklogger adds
- "The distinction between blogs and linklogs is whether you syndicate external urls or permalinks" (Provocative statement)
- Having and syndicating a permalink
- makes it possible for other people to refer to your annotation
- possibly even to comment it (if allowed)
- makes it harder to syndicate the actual logged external link
(since it has to be extracted from an html description containing both url and annotation
- Syndicating external url's
- The annotation doesn't have a permalink and cannot be referred to
- makes it easier to syndicate the links (to other sites or for reuse in the own blog)
(description element doesn't need to be parsed)
- Self-hosted linklog or bookmarking service
- Social bookmarking services have sprung up:
- Alternative: self-hosted
- via plugin of your blogging platform
- a separate application
- (Intermezzo) Categories versus tags
in blogging and linkloggin
- Categories:
- compare it with boxes you put stuff in
- you first create the box, than put something in the box
- Often: categories are nested
- Categories are common in blogging tools
- Categories allow the reader to subscribe to a selection of blog entries
- Categories are not very flexible because you have to think up
beforehand what your blogging universum will consist of
- Tags
- compare it with labels you write and attach to something
- you can freely create new tags the moment you need them
- tags are more flexible and more "organic": your collection of tags will change over time
- tagging is common in linklogging: almost all "social bookmarking" services use tagging
- tagging is less structured, more chaotic
- tags for different purposes are put on the same level
- e.g. tagging by association: words that you think will help remember/retrieve the url
- e.g. tagging by purpose: toread, toblog,
- Interesting reads
- Displaying or importing your linklog into your blog
- del.icio.us and "the wisdom of crowds"
- del.icio.us makes it possible to subscribe to
- del.icio.us is an annotated layer over the www
- del.icio.us is mineable
- del.icio.us is social
- del.icio.us is open
- Issues
- subscribing to linkfeeds suffers from
- duplication url's show up several times, tagged by different users with different tags
- use other services on top, such as feeddigest's "dupe filter"
- in 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)
- language and community
- del.icio.us is de facto an English-language geek community
- we need to improve open source implementations
of social bookmarking services (like scuttle, de.lirio.us etc)
- social bookmarking could become a standard community tool like forums, wiki's...
- Centralised walled garden versus distributed and self-hosted
- del.icio.us being the most open service,
there's a lock-in because of its existing userbase
- compare to having a self-hosted blog versus one at msn spaces/livejournal/blogger...
- what we need is services aggregating distributed sources like technorati does for blogging,
offering a similar functinality del.icio.us offers to its users
- discussion of this issue: "the tagosphere"
- example: "Guten Tag"
- standardization effort: xFolk
- another approach: duplicate your linklist
over del.icio.us, myYahoo2.0, furl, etc...
(by resynching or simultaneous posting)
- Wrap-up
- for bloggers: use a social bookmarking service
(del.icio.us is recommended), you 'll only benefit from it
- for geeks: we need distributed, open source and interoperable
- del.icio.us clones
- link posting tools (as blog soft plugin)
- for community activists: consider linklogging as a tool
