01 December 2006
A List Apart: Primer
by 3 otherstips on a variety of aspects of web sites for new designers and web site owners
27 November 2006
Lists of Bests
by 5 othersagain, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com
Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog
by 36 othersuseful annotations, garnering many comments and additions
20 November 2006
photos you likebetter: you are what you like
a charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you
13 November 2006
12 November 2006
StumbleUpon
by 62 othersFirefox extension offers an addictive way to search via categories or keywords or happenstance; you train it, with thumbs up or down on sites, so it learns your tastes; I prefer searches on keywords so far, and have had little desire to "network"
02 November 2006
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
by 56 othersYou sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
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