Monthly Archives: July 2008

Delicious redesign launches, but I still hate tagging

At long last, we have a new Delicious. Faster, more accessible, and better designed, the redesigned and renamed social bookmarking champion is no longer a vision of the future but an establishment of the present. I’m not going to cover the launch here– if you’d like to read more, check out ReadWriteWeb or TechCrunch’s excellent coverage– but rather, address an issue that’s remained relatively unchanged with the 2.0 iteration: tagging.

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Two application directories that don’t work: iTunes and Facebook

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a problem of this caliber, though: it’s easy to draw a comparison between Apple’s current directory woes and those of the social networking giant Facebook.

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Must blogging be a balancing act?

Overwhelmed. That’s often how I feel upon sitting down at my computer some evenings: too much to do, too little time, and, when the formers are conveniently in abundance, too little motivation. Am I lazy, overextended, or lacking time management skills? Nope. I’m just a growing blogger.

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