[Fsfe-ie] IFSO Bookmarks

[Harry Tormey]

I myself must confess to currently using del.icio.us but I am planning to switch over
to de.lirio.us soon because of the fact that it is free software. I know if we were to
use de.lirio.us over del.icio.us we would have a much smaller community in the short
term but by supporting de.lirio.us, in the long run we will have a much richer tool.
Besides, we are the "Irish freesoftware foundation", if their is a piece of free
software which does the same thing as a piece of non freesoftware don't you think it
would look bad for us to be using the non free version? Anyway I think Malcom just
wants a place for people on this list/others to dump links about IFSO issues to,
del.icio.us may be a bit broad in its scope.

-Harry 

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
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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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