George Siemens at elearnspace says:
One of the complaints often directed at blogging is that not everyone is a blogger – not everyone has the interest, time or the skills to write for others.
While glancing through Furl’s Popular List , I realized how effective it could be as a learning tool. Anyone can use Furl (it simply stores a copy of a webpage in your user folder, so pages aren’t lost or links broken). Making connections is a knowledge era skill. Imagine a group of 25 students subscribing to each others online topics of interest (Furl folders can be public or private)…gaining insight into what other classmates found interesting enough to keep.
Note to self: start a Furl pilot program in one subject specific courses like Psychology or Law.
You might also want to check out Spurl. Like Furl, it captures bookmark information and supports various feeds and the ability to display headlines via javascript (it’s implementation of this is, I think, particularly nice). The big addition, for me, is that Spurl can integrate with del.icio.us. This means that you can use the tools for serendipitous surfing — tag surfing from one entry to another. At first, that seemed an excellent way to waste time; I’ve found that to be true but it’s also true that it’s proved to be an excellent way to discover information.