If there is any web 2.0 media I have grown in this course, it is in folksomy. Before the course, I wanted to save websites and did so in weird ways (copying URLs, saving in my favorites bar, emailing to myself, etc.) With this course, I have used several bookmarking sites and settled with Diigo. First, let me say that I LOVE social bookmarking. It is a fantastic way to save bookmarks for yourself for use later. For creating one's own library, there is nothing better. If one wants a "free-form user initiated system" for keeping websites for later reference, some form of folksomy is the best way to do it (at least as of now). It serves it's purpose as note-taking for the 21st century.
I do understand the desire to havea more "controlled sytem," too. When searching for information, I always search the internet with a site like Google first. Google sites are more centralized with SEOs, Google metrics and other systems. It is my first stop in searching for information. I understand why, for practicality, evolving and growing communities would want to move toward a more controlled system. It would improve the ability for people to find things. However, I like the ability for me to make my own library with my own key words that make sense to me. In this sense, I am an outsider to the community even though I have a few connections and have joined a couple groups.
If I wanted to move toward including myself more in the community, I would need to assimilate to the community. I would want to "adopt others' systems." I may even want to target specific audiences by tagging a certain way. Not that long ago, I had a conversation with some friends of mine about companies using Pintrest to market. They would take pictures and use pictures by other people and put their marketing material on the bottom. In doing so, they could target specific audiences. I thought it was a brilliant marketing strategy, but the people I was talking to were upset that their social network Pintrest was being corrupted by business and industry.
Have you checked out Trailmeme.com. I mentioned this a couple of times in the past few days. It's social bookmarking meets mind mapping. I really enjoyed this.
ReplyDeleteWhat an interesting website. It looks similar to Storify, but perhaps it's better and more easy to use? I checked it out briefly just now, but maybe I'll have a more in-depth look at it and post next week. Regardless, thanks for sharing the site. :)
Deleteyour welcome. Here is mine if you get a chance to visit their site. It took me two minutes or so to create, very simple. I didn't bother to tweak it. I would have preferred to put better titles on each object block. The idea is going on vacation and the various aspects that are usually quite separate from each other (thus making tagging more difficult). http://trailmeme.com/trails/How_to_plan_a_vacation/
DeleteGood "walk," Alyn. I've been to 8 of the top 25 places, living in one. :)
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