Social bookmarking

Robin Good wrote a mini-guide to social bookmarking, addressing underlying issues and comparing the advantages and disadvantages of some main social bookmarking services: del.icio.us, Stumble Upon, Blue Dot, Ma.gnolia, Digg, Simpy, BlogMarks, Reddit, Furl, BlinkList, Spurl, de.lirio.us, Linkroll, Shadows en Yahoo-MyWeb.

As we are moving towards a semantic web, with more dynamic, user-generated content, social bookmarking is a valuable tool to structure that apparent chaos. The main weakness is that the wisdom of the crowds is not always the truth (but often close enough).

Media overload

Long long ago, life was simple. Fewer options, easier choices. Less information though. This picture illustrates the differences between the media landscape in 1960 and in 2004 nicely.