…clip it good

Recently a very smart digatechgirl girl I work with recommended that I get a Clipmarks account. I’m here today to pass on that recommendation. If you are a student or a professional that utilizes all the resources the interweb (how much fun is that word!) has to offer, than you need to get Clipmarks.

Clipmarks is a site, and also a safari or firefox add-on tool that gives you the ability to grab what you want from any given page, instead of making you bookmark or del.icio.us the entire page or site. For instance, if you see a paragraph you really liked on NYtimes online and you bookmark it, it’s gonna take a while to find it again, whereas by using Clipmarks that paragraph you liked goes straight to your clips. It’s seriously like taking sicors and cutting out what you want then filing it away in a folder. Wonderful.

Also, you can share clips with people, put clips on your website (outside of Clipmarks…a blog for example),
customize your page, and I’m sure a whole lot of other things that I just haven’t seen or found out about yet. If you want to make your digital life more organized, and un-clutter your brain a little…go now and let Clipmarks be your savior.

Thanks for the tip Julia!

can ya Digg it?

Sorry for those digitally dynamo dudes and dudettes that read this blog, but again I’m posting for the not-so-savvy readers out there. Digg has been around since late 2004, and plays a huge role in daily digital happenings. It’s a site that allows you to have a personal profile, similar to your social networking profiles, but focuses its energy on the “Digging” aspect(which I will explain momentarily), rather than your personal profile. You can see Digg all over the internet; from the New York Times online to PopSugar to Lolcats, they all have Digg This! next to articles, photos, videos, or anything else you could love or hate. When you push the Digg This! link next to whatever it is you are Digging (you know what digging means…like yeah man I totally digg that), it brings you to your Digg account and adds your Digg vote to whatever you just dug. The point, and coolness factor, of all this is that depending on whatever gets the most Digg This! clicks (which is like voting kinda, but all over the internet) gets top of the page on the Digg site. Don’t be fooled, this is a big deal. There are the main categories like Images, Video, News etc., but then there are subcategories separating things like technology, entertainment, lifestyle etc. It’s like an all-in-one news source for everything and anything. So, getting rated the highest means that the most people are interested in, and looking at/reading that specific thing. Perfect example is that right now if I look at the main category All than click Top in 24 Hrs. I see the thing that is getting the most Digg This! is a YouTube video called “What Girls need to know about their geek Boyfriends.” It’s cool to see what’s important to most people out there in specific interest areas. And, it also introduces you to things you never would have found online by yourself.

So, can ya Digg it? I know I can!