by Dave Riley
The usual mode nowadays when you come to researching for an article, talk or presentation is to do so using web search engines.
Once you find an article or segment of an article you need to bookmark it. While there are a few ways to do that -- I prefer to employ delicious -- especially by using the easy one click option offered by the Firefox add on.
It's a large addition to your browser but if you are going to do a lot of bookmarking it's worth it.
And the new feature which opens your delicious bookmark in a side bar is a great way to later review and edit each tags by clicking on them so that they open up in a tab.
But the problem of aggregating content, rather than links is not solved, by delicious which only allows a few characters each time you post a tag.
While there are a few optional ways to grab text (eg: Clipmarks) -- I'm finding the Quicknote add on for Firefox simple to use but very powerful nonetheless. Quickly and easily you can generate a massive amount of quoted text on the one text file which is automtcially posted and saved to your desktop -- each time with a tagging url.
So under one heading and in the one file -- you can build up a collection of "post it" or "Sticky" type notes.
Oct 8, 2008
Research tip: Quicknote for the web
Afghanistan
Africa
ALP
Anti-Privatisation
Asia
aud
Audio
Australia_Pacific
Books Music Culture
Capitalism
CCSC
Cinéma vérité
Civil Rights
Comics
Crime Fiction
Cuba
Debates
Economics
Electioneering
Environment
Europe
Film Noir
Food
Gay Rights
Green Left Weekly
Green Parties
Haiti
Health
History
Honduras
Housing
Humour Satire
Indigenous Rights
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Latin_America
LatinRadical
Left Media
Left Regroupment
LeftCast
Marxism
Middle_East
Montage/Photomontage
Nepal
North_America
Palestine
Permaculture
Podcasting
Racism
Refugees
Samuel Beckett
Scotland
Slideshow
Socialist Alliance
Soup Noodles
South Africa
SSP
Tamil Rights
The Blather
Timor Leste
Trade Unions
Transport
Union Show
Venezuela
Video
Video Channel
Vietnam
Vlog
Web 2.0
Web Discourse
Womens Rights
Zionism