Another big exploration here. I followed the links systematically, but found some of them not working, like the link to the Common Craft tutorial on podcasting and the Ma.gnolia tutorial and website (it's down for the summer).
Delicious is a place for building a shared reading list with collaborators. Reading list doesn't just mean books or articles, instead it's a collection of url's that you can organize by adding tags. It was easy to create a user account. When you want to add a url to your Delicious list you simply click on "post to Delicious". Interestingly, Delicious becomes a heading in your Firefox list. If you simply click on "add Bookmark" in Firefox, it now asks if you want to also add it to your Delicious account...pretty cool shortcut! If you want to create a Network to share your list with others they must also have user accounts; you just type their username(s) into the spot marked ADD on the Network page.
Digg is the largest Social Bookmarking site with almost 400 million links and 33 million monthly visitors (wow!). It is "a place to discover and share content on the web." People, not editors, determine the value of the content that is shared on this site. There are news items, videos, etc. to explore...go and see what's the latest buzz.
Furl is a place to save web content in and online archive. It allows you to organize the content by creating topics, keywords, and comments, which makes searching later very easy. Like Digg, Furl also provides a list of hot or popular topics. One thing you can easily do with Furl is save and send links to colleagues via email or immediately add the link to your RSS feed.
The Top 30 (actually 20!) Social Bookmarking Sites is just that. Digg, Delicious, and Technorati appear there, but you will also find Yahoo! Buzz, Kaboodle (a (mostly) women's SHOPPING site that seems really popular), and Newsvine, a nice site for newsjunkies like me. If you really want to go on a disorganized ride dip into Reddit for a few hours...your family won't see you for days.
One of the ways teachers could use Social Bookmarking sites like Delicious would be to create a specific tag, like "pioneers," and have everyone in the Network look for and find url's on the topic. Everybody's work easily becomes accessible for the whole team to share.
BLC10 and podcasting
2 years ago
Great idea! Thanks for sharing. I know Delicious and Technorati, but Digg and Furl were new to me. I learned something, and I thank you for the info!
ReplyDeleteIf you go to the Common Craft webpage, you can locate the quick and simple tutorial located on their page. I love Common Craft because of their simple and direct information.
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Claude, thanks for the very helpful summary. I actually had a hard time figuring out what these blogs were useful for until I read your summary and then revisited each one. NOW I am beginning to get "social bookmarking." I am excited about organizing and collecting valuable sites in one place, accessible from any computer. -Marty
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