> One thing I would like to see in del.icio.us > is the ability to rename a tag. As it is, you > have to create a new tag and then retag all > your items with it.
that's weird, i didn't realize delicious doesn't even support renaming a tag? so how do you manage change? can you re-tag a whole batch of bookmarks at once? or say, "re-tag all these links with this new tag"?
1. is easy, just make searches case insensitive. (we do this already, [1]).
2. is the "no synonym control" problem, described in the original slashdot post. any attempt to unify all names for a thing is madness. one way out of this maze is to combine what we know about the people linking (this is the social in social bookmarking), with the tags those people use, to build up a network of people you think, and link, in ways you like. this leads to features like "add this person to my list of trusted linkers", where, by inclusion or exclusion, you build up a network of people whose links you value.
if MS couldn't get Y2k compliance right, why would you expect them to fare better with the thorny problems of trusted systems?
as a general note: a truly "secure" system is a rarity. remember all the things you're trusting on an "end-to-end" link. it's not just one machine to another. even if you have an encrypted channel, you are trusting the integrity of your OS not to leave pages of your session in accessible memory, you're trusting that there's not a keystroke recorder logging your typing before it goes over the wire, you're assuming that your keyboard cable isn't connected w/a Y-adaptor to someone else's box (!), etc.
anyways, i would just say that while IBM, sun, etc. have the research $$ to get this stuff right, there's no guarantee that they will, and i wouldn't expect it to be correct the first time.
scriptable with applescript? check. scriptablte with photomatic? check. scriptable with (x-platform) actions? check.
btw, your knowledge and insight really show through when your response to "GIMP isn't ready to displace photoshop" is that print designers who have deadlines are doomed. how worldly of you. you might try walking a mile in their shoes.
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> One thing I would like to see in del.icio.us
:-)
> is the ability to rename a tag. As it is, you
> have to create a new tag and then retag all
> your items with it.
that's weird, i didn't realize delicious doesn't even support renaming a tag? so how do you manage change? can you re-tag a whole batch of bookmarks at once? or say, "re-tag all these links with this new tag"?
> and only simple one-word tags.
dashes. underscores. etc.
1. is easy, just make searches case insensitive. (we do this already, [1]).
2. is the "no synonym control" problem, described in the original slashdot post. any attempt to unify all names for a thing is madness. one way out of this maze is to combine what we know about the people linking (this is the social in social bookmarking), with the tags those people use, to build up a network of people you think, and link, in ways you like. this leads to features like "add this person to my list of trusted linkers", where, by inclusion or exclusion, you build up a network of people whose links you value.
[1] http://feedmelinks.com
if MS couldn't get Y2k compliance right, why would you expect them to fare better with the thorny problems of trusted systems?
as a general note: a truly "secure" system is a rarity. remember all the things you're trusting on an "end-to-end" link. it's not just one machine to another. even if you have an encrypted channel, you are trusting the integrity of your OS not to leave pages of your session in accessible memory, you're trusting that there's not a keystroke recorder logging your typing before it goes over the wire, you're assuming that your keyboard cable isn't connected w/a Y-adaptor to someone else's box (!), etc.
anyways, i would just say that while IBM, sun, etc. have the research $$ to get this stuff right, there's no guarantee that they will, and i wouldn't expect it to be correct the first time.
argh. photoshop unscriptable? please.
scriptable with applescript? check.
scriptablte with photomatic? check.
scriptable with (x-platform) actions? check.
btw, your knowledge and insight really show through when your response to "GIMP isn't ready to displace photoshop" is that print designers who have deadlines are doomed. how worldly of you. you might try walking a mile in their shoes.