A tool and a talk

I’m trying to accomplish two different things in this particular posting.

1. Test the new remote blogging service offfered by the very interesting social bookmarking service Diigo (beta)
2. and point you in the direction of a web presentation called Beyond the Blog (see below)

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Diigois first and foremost a bookmarking service but one with more than one twists. Not only can you bookmark pages, sections but you can add private or public annotations (on top of the highlighted copied content) and add sticky notes too. You can export your bookmarks, import from your browser or deli.icio.us (I wish there were more options here) but Diigo has yet to offer an opml import option. You can also subscribe to other members feeds or specific tags. Recently they’ve added this blogging feature.

I appreciate remote blogging. It saves times and you can update more frequently. I’ve been able to add wordpress blogs easily, the examples are directly related. But I will need to go search for my other blog configurations.

Notes: right away there are a few frustrating bugs. When you highlight a part of the text you want to blog, it copies it automatically to the editing screen. That`s good. But when you begin to type an introduction, or a comment at the top of the copied info, the entire note gets hyperlinked. There is no ‘unlink’ button, nor is there an undo option. And an html editing option would also be nice when the WYSIWYG screen won`t cooperate. Next version I suppose.
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So here goes for the first posting.

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• UBCWiki: Beyond the Blog