ever moving list of links
Over at Cool Tools, Kevin Kelly has a nice overview of “consensus Web filters,” sites that aggregate links that other users have deemed valuable. It seems like this an incremental step from blogs (particularly with tools like Blogdex and Technorati) or community moderated1 sites like Slashdot. I do agree with Kelly that these sites are great for tracking down interesting content, and clearly I’ve become a heavy del.icio.us2 user, but I think they need a cool name like “blog” or “wiki” before they catch on.
1. Also check out this post based on Clay Shirky’s ETech talk on community moderation.
2. One of the sites Kelly lists is Oishii!, which is a front end for del.icio.us. If this gets any more meta, my lame English-major brain will explode.
[...] In an earlier post, I joked that the sites Kevin Kelly calls “consensus Web filters” won’t catch on until they get a cool name like “blog” or “wiki.” I just ran into a practical reason “consensus Web filter” is a lousy name for this kind of site. I just tagged the “digg vs dot” site that compares stories on digg.com and slashdot.org, and I didn’t have a nice tag to describe it. I, of course, tagged it “Web2.0,” but that doesn’t quite describe what the site is up to. “consensuswebfilter” is too long and uwieldy for a tag, while “CWF” won’t make sense to anyone but me. [...]