I posted a few days ago on FriendFeed about wanting to get more social with my bookmarking. I primarily was referring to using all the features of Diigo to their full extent. One of which is the ability to comment on bookmarks. Hutch Carpenter recently commented on some of my Diigo bookmarks. This is what partially spurred this experiment. I rarely take part in the social aspect of commenting on bookmarks on Diigo or any of the other bookmarking websites. With the advent of bookmarking toolbars and browser plugins, one never has to actually go to the services website to collaborate on there latest finds. For most of us, this is fine as we use these services as link repositories, and feel no need to converse about our bookmarks.
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Having the ability to share bookmarks on FriendFeed has truly put the social back into social bookmarking. To some, the true definition of social bookmarking is not only the opportunity to contribute, but to have the opportunity to comment and converse.I say to to each their own. Use social bookmarking as you see fit, at least your using it to suit a purpose. This is what makes FriendFeed such an invaluable tool for social bookmarking.
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The concept of this experiment into social bookmarking, discovery and conversation is similar to the one I did in June. This time, instead of sharing Google reader feeds, I created a room for the sharing of bookmarks only. This is a focus room, group open to anyone who wants to participate. This is a group where you and I can focus in on other members’ bookmarks. A random assortment of bookmarks where you never know what you will find. Bookmarks are often considered quality content, pertaining to whatever the subject matter may be. It should be interesting to see what is shared in this room. Bookmarks are very telling of a person’s mindset, education, and interests. Please feel free to contribute, converse, collaborate in this social bookmarking profiling experiment with me.
To contribute, add your your bookmarking rss feed to the comments on this blog, or on the FriendFeed thread. Bookmark link feeds can be from Delicious, Diggo or any bookmark service that gives you an rss feed of your links.
The Share your bookmarks FriendFeed room is located here.
I hope to collaborate with Yuvi at some point for an in depth statistical analysis of the data.
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OK, I may be ignorant here, since I've never started a FF room before, but by joining that room, aren't you going to get ALL of the feeds I have asked FF to share (blog, twitter, flickr), not just my bookmarks? Or do you have the ability to tell the room, “just bring in this person's bookmarks”? My feed, btw, is http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/lnorvig
Not at all Laura. Typically the rooms are an off place to share and comment, away from your standard feeds. However, FriendFeed recently allowed users to add RSS feeds to a room, so that all content from that feed will automatically be entered into the room. The feeds are added by the administrators of the room, hence why Mike has asked you to provide him with your URL.
So, if I was to track bookmarks for everyone entering this “experiment”, I would need to subscribe to all of them (and I would see all of their other content as well). Now, I can join this room and see what bookmarks others have to offer (possibly leading me to other subscriptions).
OK, I may be ignorant here, since I've never started a FF room before, but by joining that room, aren't you going to get ALL of the feeds I have asked FF to share (blog, twitter, flickr), not just my bookmarks? Or do you have the ability to tell the room, “just bring in this person's bookmarks”? My feed, btw, is http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/lnorvig
OK, I may be ignorant here, since I've never started a FF room before, but by joining that room, aren't you going to get ALL of the feeds I have asked FF to share (blog, twitter, flickr), not just my bookmarks? Or do you have the ability to tell the room, “just bring in this person's bookmarks”? My feed, btw, is http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/lnorvig
Not at all Laura. Typically the rooms are an off place to share and comment, away from your standard feeds. However, FriendFeed recently allowed users to add RSS feeds to a room, so that all content from that feed will automatically be entered into the room. The feeds are added by the administrators of the room, hence why Mike has asked you to provide him with your URL.
So, if I was to track bookmarks for everyone entering this “experiment”, I would need to subscribe to all of them (and I would see all of their other content as well). Now, I can join this room and see what bookmarks others have to offer (possibly leading me to other subscriptions).
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