[Fsfe-ie] IFSO Bookmarks

[Justin Mason]

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Malcolm Tyrrell writes:
> It occured to me a while ago that we should have some standard way of
> collecting useful links. Perhaps we could run some "social bookmarking" tool
> on the web site like http://de.lirio.us. Anyway, for the moment, I've added
> a page on the Wiki. If you come across some useful Free Software related
> links, you can put them here:
> 
> http://www.ifso.ie/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/IfsoBookmarks

my recommendation -- use http://del.icio.us/ and pick a tag that others
are not likely to collide with -- "fsfe-ie" is perfect.   (This is what
several other communities have started using for this purpose, btw.)

Why use del.icio.us instead of de.lirio.us?

  - social bookmarking relies on many people using it.  small populations
    means you're missing the point ;)
  - "convert del.icio.us to link page" code exists already and is easy to
    use, hey presto you have an instant link sidebar for the website
  - backup via XML dump is trivial
  - del.icio.us has a great set of existing third-party hooks, including
    excellent posting bookmarklets etc
  - I already have been using del.icio.us for quite a while ;)
  - and Joshua Schachter's a nice guy ;)

Basically, de.lirio.us is still a bit "johnny come lately", with few
users; del.icio.us has the installed base.  Most people who may already be
tagging these URLs are more likely to be on the latter, and I haven't yet
seen any remotely good reason to switch.  (I even think icio has the
better look and feel.)

BTW the open source nature of lirio's backend may be considered a good
reason to switch.  But, let's face it, there's nothing to the code of
either -- they're trivial apps, but one's been made excellent by the
growth of a community around it; and your data is safe on icio anyway (cf
XML dump above).   Joshua has published quite a lot of OSS, so it's
not like he's anti-that in any way.

- --j.
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