bellstar
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response 6 of 8:
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Jan 14 18:49 UTC 2010 |
IR DCI "filters the web" for me. Oil money and (income, property, services,
consumption, value-added) tax well spent. I needn't worry about any "extra"
information. Oh wait, why is that goat porn site still accessible?!
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remmers
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response 7 of 8:
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Jan 14 19:04 UTC 2010 |
Re resp:4 - NetNewsWire on the Mac has an option, which I've enabled,
to synchronize with Google Reader, which in turn synchronizes with
NewsRob on my Android phone, so I'm pretty well synched up, RSS-wise.
I could use Google Reader directly from my web browser on the Mac,
but I prefer the NetNewsWire interface.
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bellstar
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response 8 of 8:
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Jan 14 19:13 UTC 2010 |
Seriously though, I keep a local portable bookmark cloud. WikidPad is a
wonderful piece of (free, open-source) software. Among its uses: I keep one
wiki page per bookmark with a few sentences about the bookmark, order
bookmarks by automatic time tags, add descriptive attributes to each bookmark
page at the time of creation ('linguistics,' 'interesting,' 'readable,'
'software,' a.s.o.), then search for the right bookmark through WikidPad's
"Views" mechanism which filters pages based on attributes. The space of
attributes in WikiPad (and many other wiki systems) works like the tag cloud
in some (or all?) blogging software. I can also export all or part of the
bookmark cloud to any one of a number of formats, most notably plain text
(duh!), and use text tools (grep, sed, my own Perl scripts) to extract bits
not immediately accessible through WikidPad (given I don't know Python--if
you do you'll be golden with WikidPad since it provides a versatile Python
API and executes Python code in place).
The strength of an attribute space or a tag cloud is of course emergent order.
For example, I add the attribute 'industrial' to each industry-related
bookmark wiki page. If I ever "view" my bookmark subwiki through the
'industry' attribute I will get pointers to the bulk of industry-related
matter I have ever encountered including those I may have long forgotten
about. While looking for the link to, say, vendor X's brochures I realize I
had once paid vendor Y's brochures a visit months ago; on occasion this may
be precisely what I need.
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