bookmark

🔖

A bookmark (or linkblog) is a post that is primarily comprised of a URL, often title text from that URL, sometimes optional text describing, tagging, or quoting from its contents.

Why

Why should you post bookmark posts? Good question. People seem to have reasons for doing so. (please feel free to replace this rhetorical question with actual reasoning)

• I bookmark things usually as 'read later', 'will read again' or 'should reference in a paper'. - Amy Guy

Contents 1 Why 2 How 2.1 How to markup 2.2 How to POSSE 2.2.1 POSSE to Twitter with Emoji 2.2.2 POSSE to another Twitter 2.2.3 Design of POSSE bookmark tweets 3 IndieWeb Examples 3.1 Aaron Parecki 3.2 Kyle Mahan 3.3 Barnaby Walters 3.4 Jeremy Keith 3.5 Shane Becker 3.6 Ben Roberts 3.7 atomicules 3.8 Larry Kooper 4 Silos 5 Similar Post Kinds 5.1 Reply 5.2 Repost 5.3 Quotation 6 See Also

How

How to markup

How to markup a bookmark post. Use an h-entry as usual and a u-bookmark-of property on the link to the actual URL you are bookmarking. E.g.

<span class="h-entry"> ... 
 <a class="u-bookmark-of" href="http://someothersite.example.com/permalink47">...</a>
</span>

The trailing preposition "of" helps communicate this in the same that we have u-in-reply-to instead of u-reply.

For bookmarks that contain both a link and a meaningful title, consider using "u-bookmark-of h-cite" instead:

<span class="h-entry"> ... 
  <a class="u-bookmark-of h-cite" href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-12-04-lts-to-ubuntu-14-04-lts">
    How to Upgrade Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  </a>
</span>

How to POSSE

There are some emerging patterns for how people POSSE bookmark posts in particular.

POSSE to Twitter with Emoji

Similar to POSSEd post types like jam and read one could prepend POSSE posts to Twitter with an 🔖 emoji to indicate the post type. Rather than simply posting a title and a URL, the emoji could help to indicate that a bookmarked post hasn't (necessarily) been read by the poster. Emoji use on Twitter is particularly effective as the platform limits the number of characters to indicate sentiment.

Example:

• Chris Aldrich POSSE to Twitter https://twitter.com/ChrisAldrich/status/768874827218169856

POSSE to another Twitter

A number of individuals POSSE bookmarks explicitly to a different Twitter account than their "normal" or "primary" one.

Examples:

• Jeremy Keith POSSEs from his site's bookmarks to https://twitter.com/adactiolinks
• ...

Related examples (bookmarking to another Twitter in general, might not be POSSEing)

• @nelson posts bookmarks to https://twitter.com/somebitsLinks
• ...

Design of POSSE bookmark tweets

Alternative approaches exist regarding the content POSSEd to Twitter, mainly based on the intended audience and whether the post contains just the bookmark or broader commentary:

Jeremy Keith provides short commentary in the post but has, based on feedback regarding unnecessary clicks, decided to share only the bookmarked URL on his Twitter feed:

• https://twitter.com/adactioLinks/status/779759088485953536

Sebastian Greger is testing various approaches that feature the URL of his own post, in order to always present the reader with his commentary:

• linking only to the bookmark post https://twitter.com/sebastiangreger/status/769068496261177344
• links to both the bookmarked website and the bookmark post, e.g. https://twitter.com/sebastiangreger/status/768770201135505408 (N.B. only the last URL in a Tweet is shown as a link preview on Twitter, see http://indieweb.org/twitter#Features)

IndieWeb Examples

Aaron Parecki

Aaron Parecki previously used WordPress to post bookmarks on aaron.pk/bookmarks using a custom Wordpress post type since 2010-12-18. He now uses Quill to post bookmarks to p3k as of 2014-09-07[1].

These bookmark posts contain:

• URL
• Title/text
• Optional tags
• Optional snippet of text manually copied from the URL as a way to remember why I bookmarked it (example)
• Optional note about why I bookmarked it

Video showing browser bookmarklet from Quill used to post bookmarks:

• http://aaronparecki.com/notes/2014/09/07/1/indieweb-bookmarks

Kyle Mahan

Kyle Mahan uses Red Wind to post bookmarks on his site kylewm.com since 2014-07-08. E.g.:

• https://kylewm.com/2014/07/meet-the-man-building-an-ai-that-mimics-our-neocortex-and-could-kill

Barnaby Walters

Barnaby Walters uses Taproot to post bookmarks on his site waterpigs.co.uk as notes tagged with "bookmark" since ????-??-??. These bookmark posts contain:

• URL
• Tags
• Text note with one or more URLs inline

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith posts bookmarks on his own site at adactio.com/links since ????-??-?? and POSSEs them to Delicious. These bookmark posts contain:

• URL
• Title
• tags
• Description

Shane Becker

Shane Becker imports bookmarks to veganstraightedge.com/bookmarks by PESOSing from Instapaper (tagged with "imported:from=instapaper.com") and Pinboard (tagged with "imported:from=pinboard.in") since ????-??-??. He sub-categorizes them by adding a "fave", "read-later", "watch-later" or "listen-later" tag to a bookmark post. The linked title of a bookmark post goes to the bookmarked URL, not the bookmark post's permalink. Bookmark posts have a ⇜ before the title to help indicate that the link goes to an external site. The ⇜ is applied using a CSS :before selector and a content property to keep it out of the actual HTML/microformat content. These bookmark posts contain:

• URL
• Title
• tags
• Excerpt (optional)
• Description (optional)

Ben Roberts

Ben Roberts has been able to post bookmarks since 2014-10-10, with Postly though has not used it much yet other than as testing. https://ben.thatmustbe.me/bookmark/2014/10/10/6/bookmark

atomicules

User:atomicules.co.uk, taking a slightly different approach, I decided I did not want to host or own every bookmark I make as I would never have a self-hosted tool as quick and as convenient as Pinboard, etc, nor did I want the clutter of bookmarks offtopic to that of my website. I did, however, already have link type posts, so I decided to start syndicating these out to Pinboard (See that page for my example).

Larry Kooper

At IndieWebCamp NYC2, attendee Larry Kooper demoed a bookmark site he built. The code is available on Github.

Silos

Bookmark hosting silos:

• Instapaper - (bought out by PInterest in late August 2016)
• Pinboard

The below image is of the bookmark display on Pinboard, which adopts a text-first somewhat minimalist design which shows the name, when it was bookmarked, and by whom. A description and tags can be optionally added.

Previously:

• delicious

Similar Post Kinds

Text of a bookmark post is most often the title of the linked resource, i.e. created by the author of the linked resource, rather than the person posting the bookmark post.

This is a key distinction between a bookmark and other kinds of posts.

Reply

The text of a reply is written by the person posting the reply, and often a new statement in response to the original post.

If the text of a bookmark post is written as commentary on the bookmark, then that should likely be a reply post instead.

Repost

The text of a repost comes from the entirety of the content of a bookmark rather than the name or title of the bookmarked resource.

If the text of a bookmark post is the entirety of the contents of the thing that is bookmarked, then that should likely be a repost instead.

Quotation

The text of a quotation comes from part of the content of a bookmark rather than the name or title of the bookmarked resource.

If the text of a bookmark post is merely part of the contents of the thing that is bookmarked, then that should likely be a quotation instead.

See Also

• posts
• note
• h-cite
• read later