Smarter browsing, now with Snippets!
A tool called Net Snippets allows you to copy web pages, or merely clippings from them, and add comments, keyword, remarks, etc. and then file then like bookmarks. This is what bookmarks should have been from the beginning!
Seriously, we have massive amounts of hard disk space, its not like we can’t quickly spider a page and download linked images, then copy it to the hard drive so we can annotate it. I can see how this could be a really nice tool for blogs, since it integrates directly into the browser. For instance, I could keep my bookmarks in folders (with annotations), and then mark specific bookmarks to get posted to my blog to share with my readers (if I actually had any).
It frustrates me that the various means by which I record my web browsing don’t integrate well. In particular, it bugs me that my bookmarks and blog don’t have much of a connection. I really would like the ability to annotate pages as I bookmark them, which NetSnippets allows me to do. Since annotated links are one of the core foundations of blogs, it makes sense for thse things to work together. Currently, I have to do each seperately, using two different interfaces.
If I could get this all integrated into some kind of mass informational repository like LM Orchard’s wiki, well then I would be in infogeek nirvana.