Simian Design

October 28, 2004

To del.icio.us or not.

Searching and Classification. I have these two items at odds with one another. It’s in regards to my low-threshold linking system, Link-Fu.

I have a del.icio.us account. I love the faceted classification system. The emering folksonomy is a great thing. The archiving power of this system is enormous. It breaks my search.

My link system, Link-Fu, is currently built in MoveableType as a separate blog. This allows me to search the site through one single search. This is nice, and convient.

But Link-Fu and Blog-Fu has never integrated like I really want. I want to post to del.icio.us, have it display on my site, and update the proper RSS feed. And when I go to search, it searches my del.icio.us account as well as Blog-Fu. And my results could be sorted for relevance either grouped, or separated. That would be ideal.

<siderant> Ideally I’d like just one feed rather than multiple. I think having separate feed for your quickLinks/bookmarks/low threshold (whatever you call them) and for your main site isn’t the ideal situation. In fact, the more I think about it, it’s bogus.

If I subscribe to one of your feeds, I’ll probably be subscribing to the others, as I’m interested in when your site is updated, or I want to get your content. What I don’t want is a list of umpteen hundred feeds in my feed readerof choice. I don’t want granularity in my feeds. Not really. Not unless you’re a newspaper. Granularity in a newspapers feed could be nice. But that’s really about it.
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Posted at 06:51 PM

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foxfair

for your siderant: bloglines has an option to show only updated feeds.

Posted by: foxfair | October 30, 2004 12:03 AM

Tony

I understand that about the bloglines. But I don't want three subscriptions to the same site for different feeds. I want a single feed.

Posted by: Tony | October 30, 2004 08:15 AM

Adam Bramwell

I do want separate feeds, as I use the blo.gs sidebar to keep abreast of *actual new content* on sites as this information is so much more valuable when viewed in the context of the site.

Linklogs on the otherhand go to bloglines, as it rarely matters who linked to it as there's little or no commentary.

Each to their own!

Posted by: Adam Bramwell | November 9, 2004 02:26 AM