Science Library Pad

Furl down?

Anyone else having problems with Furl?
I haven't been able to get on since yesterday.

more on linkblogging

I slagged Spurl a bit in an earlier post, but since then I ran across this Spurl streams thing, which is a solo or group linkblog that's more along the format I like.

I'm creating a Bookmarking category in Typepad, I'm already using Bookmarking on Furl.  I'm trying to limit the number of Typepad categories I create but it's a balance.

managing bookmarking for multiple identities?

I am mad for bookmarking, due to my fear of the crucial missing link being needed at some unknown time in the future.

I also have multiple blogs I need to bookmark for: this one, one about electronic voting, etc.
I want to keep the linkblogging for each of those sites completely separate, I don't want to mix everything together in one account.

So thus the problem: I think Furl is great, but I don't want to have to login for every single bookmark I make.  Ideally, I could have a set of bookmarklets: Furl this to Account 1, Furl this to Account 2 etc.
Maybe it is really easy to do this, in which case, please tell me.

In the meantime, the only way I have found is to use completely separate tools for the different accounts.  Right now I am playing around with BlogMarks.net, I can't say much since I've only bookmarked one page so far.  It is a bit slow as it completes because it does a screencap thumbnail of the page at the end, although you can skip that stage if you want.  I found a fairly useful comparison  between it and delicious: Testing BlogMarks.

The BlogMarks Blog has some neat stuff, like using GreaseMonkey to change Bloglines so that you can post directly to BlogMarks.

Any suggestions for managing bookmarking for multiple accounts (within a single Firefox profile)?

UPDATE: Currently I am managing it by using a different service for each account.
For linkblogging I like
Furl
BlogMarks.net
Linkroll

For just bookmarks with no attached comments I use the "traditional" delicious.

I tried Spurl but it just doesn't match the model of linkblogging that I like.  For a linkblog, I want to see the links plus comments/clip, but Spurl wants to have this elaborate category navigation with the comments hidden until the user shows them.  Spurl is a lot more about category than it is about just simple links tracked by date.  It also has this confusing thing with "category" AND "tags".  Some other sites do this also with "category" and "keywords".  Do we really need both of these?  I don't even know what the difference is between the two exactly.

thoughts on linkblogging

Mostly I do what I guess is now called "linkblogging".  I just copy and paste a link of interest to me along with a select few paragraphs.  The reason I do this is because when I started blogging in 2001 there were no alternative bookmark communication systems like delicious, Furl, Spurl, etc.  Also it depends on your target audience.  If you're blogging for yourself and a few friends, they probably haven't seen the links you're mentioning.  If you're blogging for a target audience of people who are sucking down hundreds of Bloglines feeds per day, they probably HAVE seen any link you're going to uncover. 

So I am going to look at using one of the services to track my links.  I already capture some in delicious, but it doesn't offer anything beyond just tags.  I'm going to check out ones that offer excerpt and/or full page capture.  I am concerned about these services vanishing, but as long as all the info is public there should be ok Google Cache / Internet Archive coverage.

So anyway, you'll be seeing fewer postings from me in this blog.  I'll link in whatever linkblogging solution I decide on.  The current leader is Furl, here's my public archive

http://www.furl.net/members/rakerman

spiderous - discover social bookmarks

spiderous shows a nice format with "hot and fresh bookmarks" from del.icio.us, Furl, Spurl and other services laid out in columns.

FindArticles relaunched, with direct Furl integration

Everyone uses Google but what about narrowing down your search, or looking for something that may not be on the open Web?

One option is FindArticles, owned and just re-launched by LookSmart.com, which last July acquired Furl, the social bookmarking service. According to a press release issued today, improvements mean that FindArticles' features include the ability to search by topic, or view only "Free Articles," making it easier for Web searchers to find what they want without having to scroll through pages and pages of search results. Once searchers find what they're after, they can save the entire page with Furl -- LookSmart's personalized, online bookmarking service.

from Jeremy Wagstaff's LOOSE Wire

Zniff search for Spurl

I can't believe that title is even English.
Anyway, Zniff is a thing for searching Spurl bookmarked pages.
They state rather grandly

By humans, for humans

What you see is the very first version of a new breed of search engines. A search engine that uses human information from normal internet users to find and rank web pages.

I guess "search less of the web" probably wouldn't have been such a strong selling point.
I don't quite fathom the differences, if any, between Spurl and Furl.

Nature New Tech - Connotea and Urchin - social bookmarks and RSS aggregator

In an OpenURL mailing list, Tony Hammond ([email protected]), from the New Technology part of Nature Publishing Group says

I just wanted to introduce NPG's new bookmarking tool for scientists - Connotea (http://www.connotea.org/). This is a free service and is being run on an experimental basis - in much the same way as the Urchin RSS aggegator (http://urchin.sourceforge.net/) has been made available. We just added a couple new features last week and are now looking to promote it further.  Any ideas on how to advertise this service more widely to the general scientific community would be gladly appreciated. For example, how to make it known to both students and faculty? One of the challenges I guess for us - and for the library community itself - is how to educate folks to make effective use of this new breed of tool. We also need their input in steering the onward development of what effectively is a web-based citation manager.

I dunno if the mailing list archive is online, anyway there's info on how to subscribe to it at library.caltech.edu/openurl/

I have posted about Connotea previously.

It seems to me that for one the New Technology group needs a better communication method.
There is a site nurture.nature.com but there's nothing new on it since 2003.
There is the Nature Publishing Group page but it's packed with too much info.
For example, did you know that Nature has a toolbar for IE?  I didn't.

Urchin is new to me, the description reads:

Urchin is a Web based, customisable, RSS aggregator and filter. It's [sic] primary purpose is to allow the generation of new RSS feeds by running queries against the collection of items in the Urchin database. However, other arbitrary output formats can be defined and generated using XSL transformations or HTML::Template templates.

In other words, the collection of Urchin Perl modules form a foundation for building an RSS aggregation or portal service.

Urchin also includes code to help administrators import RSS-like data from non-RSS sources. Currently there is code to create RSS objects using regular expression based scraping of text files or SQL queries to Perl DBI sources.

There is also a module supporting the PRISM metadata standard.
RDF Site Summary 1.0 Modules: PRISM (mod_prism)
I only discovered that by reading a news release NPG Announces Latest RSS Newsfeeds.

Connotea social bookmarking for scientists

www.connotea.org

"Social citations and remote reference management."

reported widely, including Christina's LIS Rant

CiteULike

CiteULike

CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise academic papers that they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself.

via Library Stuff

CiteULike has the concept of tags, so you can attach categories to the links you find.
e.g. here are citations tagged as being related to webservices