November 2006
Lists of Bests
by jlesage & 5 othersagain, I am fascinated by lists of bests, especially as related to literature; they comprise both an ideology of the canon and a sociology of popular tastes, a la Bourdieu; in an extended form, they comprise much of amazon.com
Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog
by jlesage & 36 othersuseful annotations, garnering many comments and additions
photos you likebetter: you are what you like
by jlesagea charming game in which you pick which of two photos you like the best, supposedly revealing something about you
StumbleUpon
by jlesage & 62 othersFirefox extension offers an addictive way to search via categories or keywords or happenstance; you train it, with thumbs up or down on sites, so it learns your tastes; I prefer searches on keywords so far, and have had little desire to "network"
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
by jlesage & 56 othersYou sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
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