Coredump

If Madonna is joining the bandwagon. I feel weird. [via Monkey Bites]

Lately, I’ve been reduced to link blogging, instead of writing full-blown treatments of things I want to blog about.

Call it laziness or whatever, but I’ve been hooked to tagging! I pass through an interesting site, I invoke my bookmarklet shortcut for posting to del.icio.us, jot down a note about it, then I’m off to another link. The result: lots of del.icio.us bookmarks and not enough substantial reading. And it’s disturbing. I’m addicted to meta. Ack!

Trying out IceRocket, where “every search is a direct hit.” Or so it says.

It is primarily a blog search engine, relying mostly on feeds and syndication to crawl contents in the blogosphere. It offers other search services as well: for web pages, images, news, even phone pics and multimedia.

What I like about it is that it provides other services such as showing blog trends (good for getting metrics on *hot* blog topics), an RSS builder (a poor man’s syndication) and tagging ala-Technorati.

I haven’t compared its hits with that of, say, Google blog search or Technorati.

“With so many places to tag so many things, how could one person keep track of it all?” Well, enter Supr.c.ilio.us, the “World’s First Social Social Tagging Site Tagging Site”. Their top tag is, uh, “tagging”.

Folksonomy is really taking off. Here be tag clouds, then, courtesy of TagCloud Beta.

The overview:

Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feed you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds.

Coupled with del.icio.us tags, the rendered clouds look real nifty. My tags look a bit weird, but hey, it’s beta after all. Have fun.

Update: I’ve taken them down. The tag cloud looks butt-ugly.