Comments on: More Filtering. No not that kind of filtering.

By: dvd on wii

dvd on wii — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:23:25 +0000

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By: Shields

Shields — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:58:17 +0000

Greetings, I was viewing on yahoo for software that automatically could submit links to diverse social bookmarking sites. When searching I came past a tool called “Bookmarkwiz”. This guys site is bookmarkwiz. com (this software is still in beta stages) I think it looks very attractive. Manually submitting my sites to propeller and digg and others is taking days of my time and hire some freelancers it is not very cheapo aswell. Some automated solution will solve my issue. I’ve seen alot of people here talk regarding socialbookmarking.. what do you guys think? assumably some of you have any experience with software like bookmarkwiz? I think social bookmarking is a fast way to increment traffic and backlinks…

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By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:39:59 +0000

Rafas,

Thanks for your perspective, likely the most important in this case. Actually you can subscribe to my shared feeds like anything else. If you click the Read More link at the bottom it takes you to my full shared page that you can subscribe to.

By: jeffmason

jeffmason — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:24:39 +0000

This post also underscores the importance of how we build our networks. Two things come to mind from

One, Trust. If we gather information from this “publish then filter” model, then, we filter as we chose the nodes in our networks. Determining who/what represents a trusted source becomes and act of filtering.

Two, intentional diversity. Avoiding the “echo chamber” requires us to establish a network

By: Rafa Ribas

Rafa Ribas — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:13:22 +0000

Dean,
Perhaps I can give you an answer from “the other side”, as an educator relatively new to read/write web. I have recently been subscribing to a number of educators’ blog posts, and one of the features I enjoy are those bloggers that provide a daily summary of their del.icio.us links – e.g. yourself and Vicki Davis. While I could have added those names to my own network, I am much less likely to browse through that list than I am to explore a small crop of links every day, especially if they come with a good descriptive comment.
I may click on the odd Google Shared link, but that involves me going to your site rather than picking it up directly on my reader (lazy, aren’t I). And as for the nature of filtering, the difficulty is probably in the balance – too little and you overwhelm with content, too much and we miss exposure to variety. And if I may be picky… who “mustread”? Of all the possible audiences that may visit your blog, can you discriminate the variety of links?
Thanks for a really useful post – I am considering similar issues a level below, i.e. offering content to my students that I previously filter in a similar way.

By: Dean Shareski

Dean Shareski — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:43:02 +0000

John,

Your #3 is a real key to eliminate echo chamber. When you talk about outside education, I’m assuming you’re referring to things that still have implications.

Frank,

That’s who I think are the target audience for the most part. I also agree about posting links to the blog. If I subscribe to your bookmarks, it’s because the majority I think are important. I like your idea of the “blogpost” tag.

Sue,

I’m not sure I agree about the filtering via twitter. It’s much more serendipitous than intentional. That’s okay but again, I think the steps I’m discussing are more for those unfamiliar. For you, twitter is one more filter and you’ve been able to figure out how it works for you. Twitter requires advanced filtering skills in my mind.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:32:39 +0000

Filtering is an interesting thing. Take for example Sharing in Google Reader – the biggest thing I’ve noticed is the variation on what types of posts people like – as individual’s it is clear we each have our own personal preferences. I think the sharing feature is definitely great for new people because it exposes them to a wide range of post that are incredibly diverse. Whereas I already subscribe to too many; which makes me less into them or shared links via delicious etc because I will pick them up in my reading — someone will tell in about them if I need them.

I personally prefer the filtering/personal recommendation that you achieve with twitter.

By: Frank's Blog

Frank's Blog — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:25:19 +0000

Thanks Dean .. reading your post gave me an idea that I just implemented. First, my blog exists for non-webheads too. So, I can’t expect them to do anything with Google Reader or del.icio.us. I think it is a blindspot to assume that you are only writing to a tech savvy edublogosphere. The casual passerby or some or your (my) colleagues are “there.” However, I still want to give them exposure to the resources that I have collected in Diigo/del.icio.us. The best way to do this is to have a periodic and automatic blog posts directly from my social bookmarks.

Having said that, I did realized that too many bookmarks where coming through and that I need to filter better to let only those I feel are “shareable” to get passed to my blog. So, just now I logged into Diigo and found where I could select only certain tags to filter through for my automatic daily blog post. So I created a new tag “blogpost” and only those entries will now be included.

A bit of twist on your suggestion, but it does limit the links passed to my blog so that my savvy twitterverse and edublogosphere visitors have less eye strain … and my colleages and casual Web-user visitors can still get to the goodies.

Frank

By: John Pederson

John Pederson — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:48:32 +0000

I pay David Jakes to call me each night at 9:50pm and give me a 10 minute summary of the news of the day.

But seriously.

1) Relieve yourself of guilt. It’s ok not to follow everybody all the time.
2) All of your suggestions. I try most of them.
3) Spending considerable time outside of education, then trying to bring that back to what it means for education.

By: susan

susan — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:50:46 +0000

I love vodpod. It makes it so easy to collect videos and get back to them when I need them. (I have found that vodpod is blocked at school, unlike youtube and others, but I am in discussion with them about it. They are working toward removing any unsavory links that cause the problem.) Thanks for sharing your filtering ideas; we all need them, and I look first to my network to give me the best stuff.