Tuesday, February 17, 2009

sources found through social bookmarking

Many people use the website del.iciou.us.com for the wealth of social bookmarking connections to be made there. Personally, I have never used it much before, preferring to just fend for myself on the internet, or stick to a few sites. But recently I have given it a try and found some really interesting and useful information.

One user who goes by "squeezebox" is an avid bookmarker who has many interesting and valuable websites saved which I have never seen until now. The user squeezebox tags very comprehensively. His 10 most popular tags are broad ones including "music," "technology," "video" and "film." Squeezebox also has a good number of martial arts related websites tagged. His method is to start off with very general tags such as "movies," "blog" and "asia," then move on to more specific ones for each website, such as "hongkong," "kungfu" or "brucelee." Most of the bookmarks have comments, some brief such as "Film Journal," some much more detailed summaries of the website. This helps give an impression of how pertinent and interesting the source is, even though it is not an exact or necessarily deliberate way to do so.

Several of the websites bookmarked are ones that I have never heard of, although they could be of great interest. One of the main ones that caught my eye is frequent kung fu movie actor and aficionado Bey Logan's blog, http://www.dragondynasty.com/blog. Bey's blog presents the reader with intimate knowledge of the inner workings and new happenings in the kung fu movie world. It is a blog I have never come across before, but now will plan to check regularly for unique news not found elsewhere.

Squeezebox's bookmarked pages about kung fu movies are not too numerous, but what is there is fairly unique and interesting. The pages bookmarked are good resources for those seeking out information and opinions about kung fu movies who have a handle on the subject, but haven't quite seen it all. I am very knowledgeable, but many of the websites bookmarked by Squeezebox were new even to me. Hopefully he will continue to update his bookmarks with more new resources on kung fu films in the future.

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