networked discovery
22nd May, 2007I’m writing this post whilst browsing another webpage, using scribefire, a plugin to Firefox that allows you to make notes, annotations and publish them directly to the blog of your choice. The site I’m browsing is musicovery which enables you to listen to music governed by the mood you’re in (or presumably the mood you want to be in!). As I’m finding these new tools I’m capturing them with my Diigo tool that allows me to annotate, tag and share the findings and from there I can find other links, tool or people that have also found this site interesting.
But it’s not just the tools that are interesting, but the way in which I came across them. scribefire was sent to me by Andy Black after a conversation in London. Diigo was discussed on Flux a few posts ago and musicovery sent to a Futurelab ‘cool stuff’ space by Tash Lee which prompted to me to re-find a post by Doug Belshaw.
So many ways of discovering that rely on others, but through effective ways of collecting, organising (and sometimes sharing), a really complex web of information can be navigated. So in the spirit of sharing, feel free to browse my Diigo space - it’s a developing set of tools that I think could be useful, are interesting or quite simply cool.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I know you don’t need me to say this, but, Welcome to the Blogsphere!
I love the way everything is interconnected, and how now it seems you don’t need to remember specific information, only have the skills to find it.
When does this get put on the curriculum?
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:33 am
Thanks for this Dan.
I can vouch for scribefire - every blogger should try it.
And as for Musicovery - wow.
Being in a good mood this morning, I’ve tried a “positive” selection; tracks so far:
I think this is going to be one of life’s guilty pleasures… :-)
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:17 am
Look interesting
May 26th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Hi Dan,
Musicovery is just great! It’s replaced ‘Groove Salad’ via iTunes radio as my chillout music of choice to play in class. :-)
Not so keen on Scribefire, though. I don’t like the way it adds its own advert at the end of posts, and I don’t feel as though I’ve got as much control over the layout of my posts with it.
May 29th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Hi Doug.
I don’t mind the advert being there as it only appears when I’ve taken advantage of Scribefire - and I’m more than happy to highlight the tools I’m using within my work processes (rather than just the products). Having said that, just for you ;-) my most recent post has been edited once posted so no adverts appear!!