The Return of the Scapbook?
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Downloading NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b2 it only just struck me that this could signal the return of the Scrapbook.
The Notepad is an outline, a place to take notes and store headlines, subscriptions, URLs, and files.
Sometimes I’m slow to catch on, but there just hasn’t been a replacement for Classic’s Scrapbook for me. NetNewsWire is one of those launch-on-startup apps – if the machine’s running, it’s open. So if it were to integrate a worthy replacement (about which there has been some thinking) then… imagine!
What if Movable Type is the trampoline on which bounces the darling blue-eyed lovechild of NetNewsWire and the Spring Desktop? You could blog desktops, and subscribe to the desktops of others. Instead of MT’s “grab this page” bookmarklet you’d have a system-wide “grab this object” command. You’d have a reading, writing, object-grabbing command centre you could run an empire from.
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Posted to Computers • 2002.12.27 (Fri) • 12:32
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Posted by Brent Simmons 2002.12.27, 15:22
That’s exactly what I was thinking — a web scrapbook for writers.
Posted by stephan 2002.12.27, 16:02
Well I don’t like to spam this site, but when you want a scrapbook, why use MT and not a wiki (ok here I am again) like SnipSnap? Well a lot of our users use SnipSnap for blogging and as a scrapbook for their ideas (on their desktop). So do I for example.
Perhaps this helped ;-)
Posted by jh 2002.12.28, 11:44
Stephan — Oops, you’re completely right. I forgot to mention the requisite wiki component.
I was trying to think of how the bandwidth would work when subscribing to desktops. Does the feed just contain an iconic representation of everything and you download the real thing when you need it, or could a little Gnutella be added and files are shared P2P-like among subscribers of a particular feed?
Posted by geo 2005.05.18, 16:46
typo scapbook = scrapbook
http://www.antipixel.com/blog/archives/2002/12/27/thereturnofthescapbook.html
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