Boredom With Blogging
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There’s an interesting post and discussion at Joi Ito’s about boredom with blogging. It’s notable, from a lifecycle of technology perspective, that people who were at the front edge of blogging are growing weary of it just as the rest of the world catches up.
I’m left wondering whether there’s a link between this and some developments I’ve noted recently:
the digiterati tiring of Skype just after eBay and the rest of the world figured out that it existed the first-to-market becoming increasingly vulnerable to product fatigue and the novelty of the new
On the other hand, perhaps this is just a concern over the lack of enduring meaning that some critics have attributed to blogging.
Update: How timely - I’ve just received an invitation to the private beta of diigo, a deli.cio.us enhancement. I’ll likely pass it by - I’m very happy with deli.cio.us and have some momentum built-up there. (Ironically, this momentum - the network effect - is a point raised by Bubblegeneration in a post that tracked back to me. The point is true anough, I suppose, but I think the network effect of many technologies is overrated - there is no end to the effort many early adopters will make to be the earliest to adopt).
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Hi Rob,
While we all can appreciate the power of network effect and certainly understand the reluctance of wanting to try out another new website that appears to be just “improvement†to some existing tools that one is customized to, Diigo is actually designed with a different purpose in mind: to allow users to add highlight and put up a sticky note (private or public) directly on any part of a webpage just like reading a book, so one can quickly and effectively compile, extract, collaborate and share the online research findings with others. Online bookmarking is just a natural extension of the above functions and allows an effective way to search and archive for yourself or public sharing. Everything (highlight, annotate, bookmark, forward) is done through a simplistic, integrated “Diigo†button.
There are also fairly rich set of functionalities, but some may be subtle. For example, within “My Bookmarks†section, many edit functions are accessible through a simple pull-down menu. There are also many customized option setting in the toolbar (under Diigo / Options), such as default settings for bookmarks / privacy, style of your highlight, and customized multi-category search. This is a subtle feature, but personally I found the mutli-category search a very useful tool since at one single box, I can conduct search in any specified category with multiple search engines that I set. So for example, instead o f a bookmark search within Diigo, I enter a stock symbol and select “Stock Search” — the default stock search engine result will show up first. But if you hold your cursor next to the pull-down arrow for 2 seconds (small delay is on purpose), a 4-tab window with other user-defined search engines in that category show up, which allows you to conduct quick search through multiple search engines without re-entering the keyword and typing other search engine URL.
We’re still making some improvements so Diigo is still under closed beta and only available by very limited invitation. If you find it interesting, please give it a try. Thanks