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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@vgr 1 basic problem besides tool-weaknesses (iffy search, too much work sorting, lack of better visual anchors) is sheer inbound overload2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@AlexSchleber Could be that any tool will capacity for taming chaos overextended. Jevon's paradox. Underlying need may be infinite here1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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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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problem is that nearly all software/co's still act like it needs to hone in on ONE, 1-size-fits-all, lowest-common-denom. version
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that's not so much a problem as an attempt to look for a type of business model known to be profitable...
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"profitable" is a somewhat nebulous term here though in the end: Compared to what? & for *how long*?
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standard capitalism is not subtle in its desires
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