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][linkURL].
I have a [del.icio.us account][delURL]. I love the faceted classification system. The [emering folksonomy][folkURL] is a great thing. The archiving power of this system is enormous. It breaks my search.
My [link system, Link-Fu][linkURL], 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][linkURL] and [Blog-Fu][blogURL] has never integrated like I really want. I want to post to [del.icio.us][delURL], 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][delURL] as well as [Blog-Fu][blogURL]. And my results could be sorted for relevance either grouped, or separated. That would be ideal.
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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 reader][feedURL][of choice][choiceURL]. 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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[linkURL]: http://www.simiandesign.com/blog-fu/link-fu.php
[delURL]: http://del.icio.us/tstephens/
[folkURL]: http://atomiq.org/archives/2004/08/folksonomy_social_classification.html
[feedURL]: http://www.ranchero.com/
[choiceURL]: http://www.bloglines.com/
[blogURL]: http://www.simiandesign.com/blog-fu/