My del.icio.us links: 3rd May to 8th May
- Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize 2009 – The 2009 Benjamin Franklin House Literary Prize asks professional and young writers in 1000-1500 words to interpret the Franklin quote: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- 10 Youtube URL Tricks You Should Know About – Including how to download YouTube videos, and how to make the video start in the middle of the video.
- The Failure of #amazonfail – Insighful mea culpa from Clay Shirky: “This isn’t because I am a generally stupid person; it was because I was, on Sunday, a specifically stupid person. When a lifetime of intellectual labor and study came up against a moment of emotional engagement, emotion won, in a rout.”
- Regarding The Jonas Brothers – Classical Geek Theatre: “But the Jonas Brothers are worse, a cultural sin of much greater, more significant magnitude. If ‘N Sync was a punk rocker’s Abu Ghraib then The Jonas Brothers are the punk rocker’s Auschwitz.”
- We Didn’t Start the Flame War – Amusing parody
- The unripened word – Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine predicts blogging by two centuries…
(Generated by Postalicious)
You do realise that we can just go to http://delicious.com/robertsharp don’t you?
LOL. Yeah, I guess most people could figure it out, but I suppose it betrays my lack of faith that most will click through to my blog at all.
I guess I base my thinking on what I do personally… which is read blogs through an RSS feed. So people like me wouldn’t have a clue that the del.icio.us feed exists if it wasn’t for the weekly post. And since I add wee comments, rather than just decriptions, to the links, I sort of feel its comment worth re-posting… which Postalicious does automatically for me anyway.
But it does betray a desire, previously denied on the blog, that I am creating this blog for readers rather than just a scrap book. If it was just the latter, there would be no del.icio.us or twitter link-ups.
I suppose what becomes annoying is the alert to a “new post” (in your RSS feed or whatever) which then turns out to be a disappointing digest of previously posted items. Maybe I’ll reduce the frequency of such posts.
Could yourself lucky that I don’t also post my tweets here, as Jason did for a while…