1/ There are some interesting lessons in the failure of bookmarking as a category
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2/ Except for pinboard.in which is kinda a retro niche, nothing has survived. I was behind one deadpooled product, trailmeme
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3/ Digg, foxmarks, browser bookmarks, delicious, stumbleupon...there were a dozen others just a few years ago, why did none of it work?
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4/ One part of answer is "insufficiently social, insufficiently addictive in collector sense" which Pinterest appears to have nailed, but..
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5/ But that only gets at information collection that we do for fun, social connection, casual interests, not "work" collection
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6/ For work needs, bookmarking ended up being a WORN technology: write-once-read-never. To get out of the WORN tarpit, you need 3 things
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I actually use my bookmarks pretty religiously as prompters, mini-annotations, & folder-sorted for a mininum of stigmergy
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. 1 basic problem besides tool-weaknesses (iffy search, too much work sorting, lack of better visual anchors) is sheer inbound overload
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. Could be that any tool will capacity for taming chaos overextended. Jevon's paradox. Underlying need may be infinite here
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yep, though there could be at least SOME better affordances (esp. customizations for diff. preference types) over what's extant
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