Aidan Henry threw down the gauntlet for me to explain why I do (semi)daily link posts from Diigo on my blogs:
Obviously, many will disagree with my view as auto-posting is quite widespread within the blogosphere. In any case, whenever I come across a link post in my RSS reader, 99% of the time I’ll just skip over it. Blog posts are meant to spur discussions and create conversations. A list of links isn’t very interesting or engaging. Instead of a blog post, a quick Tweet may be a better way to share links and generate reader engagement.—Del.icio.us Link Posts

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After the success of Thursday’s DemoCampVictoria01 and reading Mack’s post today about getting a tweetup going in Edmonton–EdmontonTweetup anyone? at MasterMaq’s Blog–I think it’s time we have one of our own.
There are certainly enough geeks and techies in Victoria and if this Twitterlocal pull of twitter users within 20 miles of Victoria (that’s about 30 km, btw) is any indication, well I think we could have a great time.
My preference would be a good coffee place with WiFi, but hey who knows right?
Okay Victoria twitterati, let’s get this going!
BTW, I’ve also created a VictoriaTech Diigo group for us Victoria people …read more

I’ve been playing with Diigo for a while and getting more and more impressed with it.  One of the things that I like about it over del.icio.us is the groups feature.  So to that end I’ve created a freely open Diigo group for Maple Leaf 2.0.

Please go ahead and go and sign up for Diigo then this new group and start sharing bookmarks!

Lots of buzz yesterday about the v.3 of Diigo, the social bookmarking service yesterday.  As someone who only sorta uses del.icio.us I thought I’d just look and move on.
Reading everyone’s reviews (especially Rafe’s on Webware) I started thinking maybe there might be more to it:

Social Bookmarking 2.0 – Diigo Sets The Standard for Others to Follow– bub.blicio.us
Diigo Tackles Recommendations – ReadWriteWeb
Diigo Revamps Social Bookmarking Service with v3.0
Diigo 3.0: The all-powerful personal, social bookmarking service | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
Diigo v3: Improves Social Bookmarking : Somewhat Frank :: web tech life :: blog by Frank Gruber

As usual I …read more