Jots: a community bookmarking tool
Jots is a meta-surfing accessory. Jots is useful. Jots is in its infancy. Jots is still getting the bugs out.
What's Jots?
A "collaborative bookmarking system" (think of flickr, of del.icio.us, of any of the sharing-and-improving programs out there which help others build on your knowledge) which "allows you to Store, Share and Discover relevant links."
Jots is probably experiencing growing pains; right now I'm not sure if it lets you "ignore" users who are trying to spam the site. But here's the beauty: spam is instantly degraded in a collaborative system. Nobody other than the spammer, and the spammer's confederates, are going to point to spam. So if you feel that a given Jotting is spam, then the person who thought it was good is worth Ignoring. You don't have to listen to them any more.
On the flip side, if someone is posting links you like, then maybe some of their other favorites are worth checking out.
As Jots gets a bit less geek-friendly and a little more user-friendly (bigger fonts, please?), I suspect it will hit like a tidal wave. Maybe a small one.
You can view my bookmarked sites and posts of interest at http://www.jots.com/users/ehnonymous. It's much, much, much easier for me to drop a link (to a website, to a post, to almost anything) than it is for me to blog about it here. So if it doesn't merit its own post, it's going to be Jot-ted.
The best part: Jots should be just perfect for supplanting my blogroll. Now, if I can just organize it - aha! I can add the "blogroll" tag to my Jots.
Also, Jots is alleged to cleanly import del.icio.us tags, so if you have an account there, you can bring it in, with no lossage.
Rating and recommendation: B+, needs some improvement for prime time, worth glancing at.
What's Jots?
A "collaborative bookmarking system" (think of flickr, of del.icio.us, of any of the sharing-and-improving programs out there which help others build on your knowledge) which "allows you to Store, Share and Discover relevant links."
Jots is probably experiencing growing pains; right now I'm not sure if it lets you "ignore" users who are trying to spam the site. But here's the beauty: spam is instantly degraded in a collaborative system. Nobody other than the spammer, and the spammer's confederates, are going to point to spam. So if you feel that a given Jotting is spam, then the person who thought it was good is worth Ignoring. You don't have to listen to them any more.
On the flip side, if someone is posting links you like, then maybe some of their other favorites are worth checking out.
As Jots gets a bit less geek-friendly and a little more user-friendly (bigger fonts, please?), I suspect it will hit like a tidal wave. Maybe a small one.
You can view my bookmarked sites and posts of interest at http://www.jots.com/users/ehnonymous. It's much, much, much easier for me to drop a link (to a website, to a post, to almost anything) than it is for me to blog about it here. So if it doesn't merit its own post, it's going to be Jot-ted.
The best part: Jots should be just perfect for supplanting my blogroll. Now, if I can just organize it - aha! I can add the "blogroll" tag to my Jots.
Also, Jots is alleged to cleanly import del.icio.us tags, so if you have an account there, you can bring it in, with no lossage.
Rating and recommendation: B+, needs some improvement for prime time, worth glancing at.
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Wednesday June 7, 2006 at 12:39pm
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