Quotes Collection
Just recently posted a new gadget on my Resources page that points you to my favorite quotes. This is the next little step into “the cloud.” I mean, if quotes aren’t for inspiring me and those in connected with, what are they for?
I’m collecting my quotes through Quotiki. It’s not the greatest (where are my user tags?) but oh well. You might also check out WikiQuote.
I’ll post more quotes up when I have time to. In the meantime, here’s a quote about quotes:
“The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.”
Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole (1938)
Good night!
Mark 12:34 pm on February 20, 2009 Permalink
I gotta say – almost as soon as I posted this article, the guys who run Quotiki personally emailed me to ask me why I said their service was “not the greatest.” I wrote them back with a few things:
— While I really like how you can organize quotes by tag, I couldn’t find a way to view all my tags (in a cloud, for example). I could only search quotes written by the entire Quotiki community. It would be rather intuitive to put a “Tags” tab next to “Details” “Posted Quotes” and “Favorite Quotes.” It would also be great to do the same with a searching through authors. Finding a user’s interest in a particular author helps you understand the user better. Maybe you could add an Author tag cloud. Also regarding authors, I noticed the rss feed does not include the author of the quote – seems like something that would help the rss more usable. Finally, I’m big into widgets and “pushing” information to my blog. I created a wimpy little google gadget on my resources page that displays my quotiki rss posted quotes feed, but if Quotiki had their own gadgets I could configure that customized the gadget with your own branding, etc, it would help promote Quotiki to more people. —
He wrote back the same morning and said they were working on each of the issues I mentioned and “thanks for the feedback.” I’ve never used a web 2.0 service with this kind of interaction. Use Quotiki!