Torley's awesome Clipmarks review

Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:52:19 GMT

clipped by: invictus
clipper's remarks: Our new fellow clipper Torley wrote an excellent review of Clipmarks. Congrats Torley, and welcome to Clipmarks!

Clip Source: torley.com

It’s Saturday morning. Wee hours, past 2 AM PST. I’m feeling mellow and relaxed. I just started using my Clipmarks account actively. Just let me say, I’m amazed time-after-time with how easily I got into it: not only does it have rounded corners in all the right places (and certainly not gratuitously), it just about always works as I expect it to.

Me, I just feel great that it’s so social. Like I’ve said about Second Life, “I’m not alone.” Maybe I’m stretching it in 2006, but I believe Clipmarks can be a useful educational tool: when I was a kid, I grew up reading the bite-sized, punchy writing in The National Enquirer. Every now and then, they’d run an article detailing how Enquirer was useful to an ESL teacher, helping communicate English to students while informing them of topics of relevance. In a similar vein, Clipmarks, with its magnificent potpourri of “100% User Powered” content, could really get students going in classrooms, having them aware of what’s happening in a very wet and memorable way.

Even more than that, in today’s world, we need information management skills. There’s no shortage to dataglut! I haven’t stepped inside a school in years, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I get the impression these skills aren’t being taught enough. By far. It goes beyond basic computer usage and adding bookmarks, to being able to make sense and retrieve the info, and share it with your fellow human beings for extended discourse, learning, and fun — creating feedback loops and reactions, and increased knowledge for all involved. This is what I’m seeing in Clipmarks as a form of participatory media (hey, what would Howard Rheingold think?). And I’ve added it to my existing pantheon of how I manage daily info.

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Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:37:56 GMT

clipped by: orangysb
clipper's remarks: Clipped this for my own easy reference

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Type	Command	Output
Bold	[b]Some Text[/b]	Some Text
Italic	[i]Some Text[/i]	Some Text
Underline	[u]Some Text[/u]	Some Text
Quote	[quote]Some Text[/quote] or [quote=someuser]Some Text[/quote]	Some Text someuser said: Some Text
Link	[url=http://yahoo.com]Some Text[/url]	Some Text
List	[list] []one []two []three [/list] or [list=1] []one []two []three [/list]	one two three one two three
Clipper (link to a clipper's page)	[clipper]invictus[/clipper] or [clipper=invictus]Cool Clipper[/clipper]	ClipperName Cool Clipper
Tag (link to clipmarks search results for a given tag)	[tag]google[/tag] or [tag=google]Results for Google[/tag]	google Results for Google

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Type	Command	Output
Smile	:-) or :)
Frown	:-( or :(
Wink	;-) or ;)
Shock	:shock: or :eek:
Laugh	:lol:
Cry	:cry:
Tongue	:-p or :p
Mad	:mad:
Roll Eyes	:roll: or :rolleyes:
Cool	:cool:
Embarrassed	:-o or :oops:
Confused	:-? or :confused:
Grin	:-D or :D

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