So many tools, so little time…
I love the idea of Suprglu, however, I went to check out the page I set up as a prototype a few months ago. The last time it updated was in May. My calendar says June 8th. Such a timeline might be acceptable for a printed document that then needed to be mailed to me at book shipping speeds; but this is the internet! I can’t in good conscience recommend this, now matter how cool the concept.
So then I stumbled across a Webtops & Wikis post on e-clippings, finding all kinds of new possibilities I didn’t know even existed. I started at Protopage. I’m not sure it’s what I would use all the time, but it was SUPER (not supr) easy to edit :). No registration required to play around, which is refreshing. What I would like is a site where other can add feeds as well, I think.
I saw Mark’s comment at the end of his post about del.icio.us tags as well. I just understood the whole functionality of the site the other day—but I can’t think where I was reading that it all came together in my mind. I was trying to figure out how a class would share ideas without making a complex network etc and voilá—I realized that you can make a completely original tag (which does present some challenges) and use that to collectively co-locate information. For example, for a workshop I’m doing on Friday, I created the tag: TechSummit2006. If you visit: http://del.icio.us/tag/TechSummit2006 all of the tags that the participants will (hopefully) add will be collected there.
I also discovered that you can add people to your network, and send them links (which will appear in the “links for you” space). To tag things for others in your network, you simply tag them for:username.
However, back to Mark’s question, I think that using del.icio.us to gather resources is not 100% effective because you can not display the actual feeds. What I would want is for people to be able to see the feeds as they update. Of all the ways this is possible, I still think drupal is the best way to do this, but it is not “free” (though it is financially free): It requires someone with the know-how to install and administer drupal, which is not the case for many people.
