No. 13 (del.icio.us)

I love controlled vocabulary. I love stringent selection criteria. I love the bibliographic description of experts.
And I love del.icio.us, too — though it stands against all those things.
As I’ve said before: for all our talk of individuality, people (when treated as an aggregate) follow similar and predictable patterns of behavior. (“You are not a [...]

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No. 12 (Rollyo)

I’ve got a customized search tool at: http://www.rollyo.com/fnpfa/fairbanks_government/. It’s designed — though not carefully — to search the levels of government, up to the state level, that a citizen of Fairbanks belongs to and might need to get information from.
If I really wanted to put some work into this, I’d find more domains to [...]

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No. 11 (LibraryThing)

You may now see my heretical/boring reading selections at: http://www.librarything.com/profile/adasiak. There are only the five required items in my “catalog” right now, but pretty soon I’ll have to cough up the $25 for a lifetime of unlimited cataloging. This tool is just too delicious.
The most fun thing about LibraryThing — which Tim Spalding presumably [...]

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