Dopp Juice Archive

The Writ is constantly under construction and just keeps getting better. Today we launched our October Issue. It’s gorgeous and inspiring. Read it.For those who haven’t followed my obsessions for the past few years, The Writ is a literary/arts journal, review, and workshop (quite a mouthful!). I’m the web master and one of its original founders. It currently has about 100 writers and artists scurrying around its pages, and gets 5,000 hits per day. It’s also an amazing community. Check it out.

You know, the kinds that connect the world and constantly process new ideas and provide you with useful tools? I found them, thanks to Seth Godin. They’re here: Emily Chang – eHubAll of them.(Holy constant updates, Batman!)

I have a confession to make. I’ve been sucked into del.icio.us. Besides having a very clever domain name, it’s downright addictive. Start browsing, and there’s a constant flow of good websites and information, all peer-reviewed for popularity. What is del.icio.us? How does it work?They call themselves “social bookmarking.” Basically, you open a free account with them, use it to keep a list of public bookmarks, organize them by “tags” (keywords that describe the websites), and browse the del.icio.us community for more bookmarks to visit. What makes del.icio.us cool (and addictive)?The homepage lists the most recently added bookmarks. It also lists the most popular tags. Browse the tags for a category you’re interested in today, and you’ll immediately find something the greater web community proudly approves of. Want to keep browsing? Every bookmark entry lists how many other people also link to that website. Click on that number, and you get a list of those people. Continue navigating, and you find the other bookmarks of those like-minded people. It’s a web of website sharing. Check it out by viewing my current bookmarks and clicking around.How do they make their domain name like that? Here’s my theory: they thought ahead. It’s possible to buy domain names that end in *.us, because it stands for United States (there’s also *.uk, *.au, and so on available). They bought icio.us for their domain name. Then they added a subdomain (which comes before the domain name in the URL) and named it “del”. Thus: del.icio.us. I suspect more people will start doing this, now that all the good domains have been taken. Pretty neat, huh? Remember to set aside several hours to browse once you get started.Update: If browsing is more important than listing your own bookmarks, check this out: Spiderous. They display the most popular and most recently bookmarked links on del.icio.us, as well as on three other social bookmarking arenas.