Comments on: del.icio.us and public sector PR

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:34:35 +0000

Amen to that, Sam.

By: Sam Farrow

Sam Farrow — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:12:24 +0000

I think you are right there Jason. On a personal level though, my big hope is that the news industry make a better job of managing copyright in the modern interconnected world than the music industry did.

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:42:04 +0000

Exporting to a HTML file a list of all the URLs that point to the copyrighted material. I can't see how this would be a breach, but I'm not a lawyer...

By: Sam Farrow

Sam Farrow — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:34:13 +0000

Sorry Jason it has been a few years since I studied IP law – and I am not too sure what you mean by exporting bookmarks.

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:51:12 +0000

Of course Sam – point taken re YouTube. Exporting bookmarks, though, surely is within the scope of legitimate use?

By: Sam Farrow

Sam Farrow — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:39:01 +0000

[Media articles]can be syndicated via RSS or exported to HTML and backed up

And

upload your own copies to YouTube

Notwithstanding copyright I assume Jason.

anathema to the local broadcasters

– newspapers too and there are commercial reasons for this.

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:20:23 +0000

Thanks Rob: and I eventually stumbled across it because I had added you to my del.icio.us network. Surely another reason to use the service...

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:12:22 +0000

Bookmarking oral questions under the kiwimp username at del.icio.us was an experiment on the path to developing TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. I wrote a program that bookmarked the oral question transcripts. It automatically created tags for items like the minister being questioned and the MPs that spoke. At the time I wanted to emphasize how tag bundles could be used to group tags into semantically meaningful categories, which makes ad-hoc querying easier. Kiwimp is also the name of the sourceforge.net project where I store the free open source software code for TheyWorkForYou.co.nz.

By: Che Tibby

Che Tibby — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:57:39 +0000

Yeah, but broken links are normal for the internet. They’re one of the foibles we put up with.

Maybe someone can write some software that scans and checks your bookmarks on a regular basis, informing you when one is out of date.

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:58:14 +0000

...and if the links don't break, it makes a pretty good record of material accessed and referenced.

As for consistent tagging, I think that the looser the better. See this post on folksonomies providing 70% more terms than taxonomies in enterprise organizations.