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16 Nov 08

geek.teacher » Blog Archive » One way I use Diigo

  • A few months back, after checking out the options available, I switched over to using Diigo.  It offers more options, and has some nice grouping features.  Also, I primarily use it because it can send links to delicious every time I make a new bookmark, and would import from delicious when I started, but delicious doesn’t offer the same options.  This way I have a backup of my bookmarks, as well as access to tools that interact with delicious.  This way, too, if I’ ever someplace that blocks one but not the other, I won’t find myself lost in the middle of a lake without a paddle.


    Like most of the social networking tools, I more or less exclusively use it as a professional resource.  I do the personal posting thing in Twitter to some degree because everybody does, and it’s what makes the community a way of getting to know people, but I’m really there for interacting with other educators.  This blog primarily, but not always, deals with education.  Any nings I belong to are education-related, and of the major social networking sites, the only one I’m on is LinkedIn, a professional resource.  Diigo is the same for me.  It’s all about things tangentially related to education.

27 Aug 08

InfoQ: Opinions: Why Most Social Software Fail and how to Avoid it

  • It’s easy to get sucked into doing things that would make a single user’s experience better, but makes the experience of a network of users worse.
  • Simplicity is another keyword of Shirky’s law. To be shared by a large number of users, the underlying user model needs indeed to be simple. According to Michael Nielsen, there are two reasons why this often isn’t the case. First of all, programmers tend to do technically impressive things whereas the most successful social software rather “starts out doing one task supremely well”. Finding such a task, however, is extremely difficult. It should be a useful, original and simple task, a task that “can’t be reduced or explained in terms of existing tasks". Discovering this task is much more of a social challenge rather than a technical one, which explains why many successful applications were created by people who do not come from a purely technical background or else invented "by accident”. Blogger, for instance, was a part of a project management system, Flickr came out of the project of an online game where players can share photos, and the first wiki was created because Ward Cunningham got “tired of responding to user’s requests to update a website he ran”.
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