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I know, I know... this post isn't going to resonate well for all you "Net Neutrality" advocates who would like to destroy the Internet as we know it. But let's face the facts: really, how likely is it that The Matrix will become a reality in our lifetime? Let the Internet live, I say- and let our grandkids worry about giant superintelligent robots placing them in energy harvesting plants.
But I digress.
This whole time that I've been using this wonderful worldly-widened web, I have made it a point to bookmark things of interest to me. Everything from my research into the Semantic Web, to Gary Brolsma's Global Numafication. (And yes, it does disturb me that I actually know his name off the top of my head.) For what it's worth, I feel I do a pretty good job of categorizing and labeling the bookmarks in order to find them later.
There's just one tiny problem: After fourteen years of using the Internet on a daily basis, I have a lot of bookmarks. Really. A LOT of them. And with that comes a good deal of overlap, and a ton of outdated bookmarks pointing to web pages that just simply don't exist.
Now, I've never used any of these lovely little social bookmarking services- Delicious, Digg, Reddit, Technorati, Google Notebook, et al- none of 'em. Nada. Never even tried one out. I mean, I've visited pages on Digg and Technorati that other people created with their websurficance, but that hardly helps me at all, because some of those pages I end up bookmarking, and that only serves to increase the heap.
I'm going to take a moment here and reflect on whether I should register IncreaseTheHeap.TLDs...
Nah. I have too many domains already. But damn... I am really ADD.
Help this n00b out:
What is the best means you've discovered for keeping track of your experience and travels on the web?
I need something that I can easily annotate and cross-reference between my own notes... and preferably, something that decreases (or ideally, eliminates) overlap while adding context I might not have thought of on my own. I need something that I can export in an extensible format, in case the service ceases to work (or ceases to be the best)... and something that will help me collaborate with my employees and other people around the world. I need to be able to specify which content is personal (for my eyes only), and separate that from content that I'd like to be public.
And while I'm dreaming here, I'd really like it if there was a service that offered all of that, tied in with my blog (so I can make a post quickly at the end of the day, extrapolated from my day's surfing path), and capable of storing related content (like Flickr and some of those "Virtual HDD" companies do).
Now, pray tell: Am I dreaming? Or does this exist?
Because if it doesn't, I'm going to build it and make a whole load of money.
[edited by: shri at 12:24 am (utc) on May 2, 2007]
[edit reason] edited to stay within the Terms of Service [/edit]
