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A good introductory video to Diigo, the social bookmarking tool

A good set of links for educational uses of Diigo social bookmarks. Includes suggestions for teachers on how to employ Diigo for pedagogical purposes

Fascinating exploration of "social reading" and the prospect of open bookmarks.

One of the earliest and still most popular social bookmarking services

An academic social bookmarking system

A reference manager for research (also a tool for discovering bookmarks)

"Web surfing as a form of self-expression. Every click is indicative of who we are: indicative of our likes, our dislikes, our emotions, our politics, our world view. Of course, marketers have long recognized this, but literature hasn't yet learned to treasure-and exploit-this situation. The idea for this class arose from my frustration with reading endless indictments of the Web for making us dumber. I've been feeling just the opposite. We're reading and writing more than we have in a generation, but we are reading and writing differently-skimming, parsing, grazing, bookmarking, forwarding, retweeting, reblogging, and spamming language-in ways that aren't yet recognized as literary."

A free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources.

this would've been so useful in the past

Thoreau's mode in Walden translating over to Civil Disobedience

A digital copy of the book I am reading!

I guess I can read this in the digital format too (if I wanted)

I found this powerpoint on google scholar, and it has given me a better sense of direction in how I should read the novel.