Comments on: The Strange Death of Bookmarks?

By: Britblog Roundup No 129 - Philobiblon

Britblog Roundup No 129 - Philobiblon — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:51:36 +0000

[...] into the virtual world, Sharon on Early Modern Notes reflects on how Google killed the bookmark – now only part of internet archaeology, while Investigations of a Dog says that if you think [...]

By: peacay

peacay — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:18:11 +0000

delicious ushered in a big change for me. My ff browser is almost exclusively devoted to ‘interim’ material/sites/whatever. Either they’ll make it to delicious (or to my blog actually) or they’ll be chucked, once I’ve had a better look. But I still use some browser perma-bookmarks each time I power up. blog/email/bloglines/delicious/technorati/metafilter get auto-loaded from a single click. rss is a wonderful memory saving phenomenon or it’s an evil monster that manages to make ‘too much information’ look like a sissy expression – I change my mind about which it is daily.

[and in ref. to the above entry - I totally agree about the 'not another bloody password' sentiment re: facebook. They don't want my custom. Fullstop.]

By: Investigations of a Dog » Digital Things

Investigations of a Dog » Digital Things — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:55:46 +0000

[...] over at Early Modern Notes, Sharon noted the death of bookmarks. I still use bookmarks a lot more than some people, but it is [...]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:48:04 +0000

The only thing I used my browser’s bookmarks folder for is 1) CHNM projects I’m working on, and want to get to quickly, and 2) websites and projects I have on my laptops webserver. Anything I want to come back to that’s on the web, I tag it in my del.icio.us account.

Social bookmarking has definitely changed my browsing and archiving habits. I love looking through del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia to see what others are tagging, what’s popular, et cetera. Tagging as well. I tried, a long time ago, to do the whole structured bookmarks folder with subfolders, trying my best to make it as organized as possible. But with del.icio.us, I don’t have to think about that. I just tag it with whatever I think is appropriate. I don’t have to worry about organization. And, 99% of the time, I can find any site even if I only have a vague recollection of how I tagged it.

RSS has also affected how I want to receive content. I can’t begin to count how many websites I’ve visited and said to myself “Gee, I wish this site had an RSS feed.” I often forget about sites that don’t have RSS.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:16:16 +0000

If you mean what I think you mean, yes I use that quite a bit too. You start typing in the address bar and it brings up all the recent addresses that start with the same letters? Very handy. But it will only last as long as your History settings, so maybe you need to check in your Preferences (in Firefox it’s under the ‘Privacy’ tab, not totally intuitive) to see if something has got changed when you weren’t looking.

It’s also possible that you unintentionally cleared the browsing history – Firefox’s ‘Clear Private Data’ facility by default ticks the box to clear all sorts of stuff (including autocompletion of forms) – you can lose a lot of useful browsing info when all you wanted to do was clear the cache. But it should build up again as you visit sites – if it doesn’t, you might need to upgrade/re-install/change browser…

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:34:21 +0000

I used to use bookmarks and blogrolls pretty heavily, but ended up using the history auto-complete function (I use Netscape, if that matters) almost exclusively. (For reasons I don’t understand, my Netscape clears its history now, so I’ve had to go back to bookmarking things to keep them accessible and it’s quite annoying.)