Social Bookmarking Explosion

Social bookmarking has entered its heroic age, where multiple actors content for a new, growing world.
In the begining was del.icio.us. Elegant and fast, crisp and focused, Joshua's invention was rapidly taken up. In tandem with Flickr it kicked off the folksonomy furor. Furl was there as well, if relatively unsung.

Others have started to emerge. del.irio.us took things a little further. I have recently found RawSugar, which positions itself to attact del.icio.us users, and adds a bit more personalization to one's self-presentation. The same day I played with Sugar I also spotted Shadows, which wants to heighten bookmarking into larger commentary on web pages (NB: site seems to be down tonight).
B tells me about Connotea, which is aimed at the sciences.
The Wikipedia's social bookmarking entry lists still others. More than thirty (30) others. Are we seeing social bookmarking entering the YASN (yet another social network) phase of that movement? Is the duplication of effort going to grow? How much innovation can be attached to each new one to justify exporting one's growing list of links?

New Orleans DoubleQuotes

Blues

Think of these paired quotes as twin thoughts dropped into the mind-pond -- not so much for their own sakes as for the sake of the ripples and resonances between them. I invite you to read these DoubleQuotes one pair at a time, slowly, slowly, so that the multiples ironies and quiet nuances that have come together in the weaving of this tragedy have room to breathe.

A Pasolini resurgence in English

A friend points me to this recent article on Pasolini. It's an introduction to the man's life, and uses the revisiting of his death to draw attention to the breadth of his work. Hopefully this is a sign of a rise in attention to Pasolini, and, even better, maybe some more translations of his written work. One of the reasons I need to learn Italian (beyond what I remember from music) is to read Pasolini's poetry.
My favorite of his films so far remains the extraordinary Theorema (1968). The success last year of Gibson's gore-fest reminds me of Pasolini's excellent Gospel According to Matthew (1964). It might be better to start with his first film, Accattone (1961), which now feels like the ancestor for American independent films, autobiographical comics, and auteur revisionism.
The article above also links to this nice page, some of Pasolini's notes to Salò.

See a Secret...Share a Secret

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.

The Telephone

Make sure your sound card is on--then reach out and touch something. Do it.

Sun Tzu's Art of War

So what's the big deal? A complete, essential, no-comments-by thousands of people, version of the work in PDF format to take anywhere @ 448kb. Just click and save or come back when in need of a dose of startegy. Say thank you hamid.

Pimping the Pimps of Gore--you are not what you own

"Please support the artists and bands you read about on this site in any way possible. Buy a shirt or a CD. See a show. Kiss a bassist if you must."

Excellent Blog dedicated to music--Pay dylon a visit:

http://dmg541.blogspot.com/