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> but it takes me too much time to do that every time Good. It means you will stop hoarding bookmarks that you don't need. An inherent problem with digital co

by aasasd 7y ago

> but it takes me too much time to do that every time Good. It means you will stop hoarding bookmarks that you don't need. An inherent problem with digital content is that it's pretty easy and cheap to produce (with corresponding quality), and almost free to copy―but still expensive in effort to consume and take meaningful action. You need to move the balance if you want to avoid piling up digital garbage that you won't ever conscientiously touch. If you don't have time now to not even read the articles, but to just add tags, you won't have it later either unless you take a sabbatical or retirement to go through that mess. Filing the pages in an organized system needs a quite good amount of work in exchange for a chance that you at least can find them in the future if the need arises. As a minimum, it requires that you have some understanding of what the page is about.

freehunter 7y ago
Digital content being so easy to produce and often of such poor quality is the best reason to use bookmarks. Trying to get back to the same tutorial I liked is impossible when searching “react firebase authentication” shows a hundred new poor quality articles being written every day. If I see a couple that might be promising I’ll throw them into my bookmarks to go through later. Because most of them might be trash but who knows if I’ll ever be able to find them again to verify.
- heisenbit 7y ago
  Yes, in the past the web was able to self curate. People were creating links to stuff they found valuable. Google amplified these signals. These days it is too easy to copy-paste stuff and creating meaningless content is valued over referencing reference material. Google search quality went down. What we need is a way to get Google and other search engines to index our bookmarks to figure out what people value.
  - freehunter 7y ago
    Ugh, the worst is when I click a StackOverflow result that doesn't solve my problem so I go further down the list and all the rest of the results are sites that just index and mirror SO content.

by aasasd 7y ago

freehunter 7y ago

Digital content being so easy to produce and often of such poor quality is the best reason to use bookmarks. Trying to get back to the same tutorial I liked is impossible when searching “react firebase authentication” shows a hundred new poor quality articles being written every day. If I see a couple that might be promising I’ll throw them into my bookmarks to go through later. Because most of them might be trash but who knows if I’ll ever be able to find them again to verify.

heisenbit 7y ago
Yes, in the past the web was able to self curate. People were creating links to stuff they found valuable. Google amplified these signals. These days it is too easy to copy-paste stuff and creating meaningless content is valued over referencing reference material. Google search quality went down. What we need is a way to get Google and other search engines to index our bookmarks to figure out what people value.
- freehunter 7y ago
  Ugh, the worst is when I click a StackOverflow result that doesn't solve my problem so I go further down the list and all the rest of the results are sites that just index and mirror SO content.