Fun With Top-Level Domains
posted by Norm on June 3rd, 2005 • filed under Society, Web DesignThere’s a reason why weblogs are traditionally – or at least, as traditionally as such a new medium can be – associated with egomaniacs; they’re a lot of work. It probably isn’t obvious from the outside, but unless you have an insufferably high opinion of your own life finding interesting or entertaining bits of it to talk about several times a week is more difficult than you might suppose. The situation is further compounded if your particular site is of personal design. Now, on top of coming up with content you’re also required to be your own IT and art/design departments.
I mention this not to garner sympathy or to make excuses for my lackadaisical update schedule but instead to form some sort of coherent segue into my new favorite web tool: del.icio.us. Anyone who spends more than a few minutes of any given day probably accumulates dozens of interesting or amusing links that go unshared because we’re far to lazy (and have too much respect for our friends) do send dozens of unsolicited e-mails about them. Conversely, we might have a vehicle for sharing them (like a weblog) but the mechanism for adding and sorting them is annoyingly incomplete.
Besides an excuse to advertise a clever domain name, del.icio.us is a great tool for organizing and archiving links. I’m not sure if I care about the “social networking” portion of it – I don’t even do Facebook – but the rest of it seems well done. Signup is free and they don’t do anything with your information – check it out if this sort of thing appeals to you.
Anyway, the result is that I’ve started using this for links that would normally get added to the sidebar, thus it has languished even more than usual. The site does provide a basic API as well as RSS and static HTML feeds, so I’ll probably start working up a way to integrate it into the site this weekend. I’ll let you know how it goes, and it should probably result in more content. Maybe.
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