Brian Kerr

A recent change: daily posting of del.icio.us links to this weblog, in their own category, but excluded from RSS feed(s). There was trouble with the feed exclusion the other day, but should be smooth sailing from here on out.

Del.icio.us has a nice tagging trellis: just the right amount of structure. Each little set of tags tells a tagset word-line nano-narrative, but you always have the to hell with it shift linguals option of clicking through a tag and seeing where it takes you. Del.icio.us is a toxic stinging jellyfish: grab a tag or tentacle or feeler or what have you and you can pull up a great glistening jellyfish chunk of the network from there with all kinds of other strands hanging off. All this to say that del.icio.us, 36 months and 4800+ links later, has become the most telegraphic software I use. I like the idea that each word is connected to a bunch of other words, each person to a bunch of other people. I like the cut-up adjacency that comes out of everybody else’s attention in the (my) network; whenever I refresh it, it’s like somebody chucked the system of the world into a hat, shook it up, and pulled out a few random crumpled pages for me to look at. I like to think that if WS Burroughs were here, he’d say this is a little sneak preview image of the unspecified whatever state that comes after the end of the war game.