I really like what Tom has done here, printing out his bookmarks.
They capture a changing style of writing. They capture changing interests – you can almost catalogue projects by what I was linking to when. They capture time – you can see the gaps when I went on holiday, or was busy delivering work. They remind me of the memories I have around those links – what was going on in my life at those points.
Brilliant; just brilliant. Connor O’Brien remains skeptical about the abstract permanence of “the cloud.” The observations are sharp and the tone is spot-on.
If your only photo album is Facebook, ask yourself: since when did a gratis web service ever demonstrate giving a flying fuck about holding onto the past?
A viciously accurate assessment of Yahoo’s scorched earth policy towards our online collective culture:
All I can say, looking back, is that when history takes a look at the lives of Jerry Yang and David Filo, this is what it will probably say: Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it.
Paul has some further thoughts on self-hosting bookmarks while trying to retain the social aspect.
Paul explains why he won’t be moving from Delicious: the social network is too valuable.
Delicious has finally launched its redesign. It feels weird linking to it from Magnolia.
Did you know that you could use del.icio.us to bookmark colour palettes? Neither did I.
Et tu, BBC?
Planet Microformats: Brian aggregates blog posts, upcoming events, del.icio.us links and Flickr pics tagged with 'microformats' (which means this link will also appear there... I mean here).
An interesting take on the recent round of acquisitions by Yahoo.
Yahoo! does it again. Now they've gone and snapped up del.icio.us.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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