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September 20, 2004
Pasta is Yummy
Posted by Liz Lawley
Maciej Ceglowski, who partnered with Joshua Schachter to create LOAF, has just announced a new tool for users of Joshua’s del.icio.us social bookmarking system.
Pasta allows you to create a web page using pasted-in text, and then add that newly created web page to your del.icio.us bookmarks. This allows you to use del.icio.us to quickly create public bookmarks to material that isn’t already on the web, but that you’d like to make available. (Examples Maciej provides are “a text message, some class notes, a recipe, an email.”) Brilliant.
The rules are simple:
1. 100K length limit
2. No more than 10 posts per day
3. Don’t be abusive
4. Everything is public
5. Everything is permanent
6. May go down at any time
7. Do not taunt del.icio.us pasting service
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1. Maciej Ceglowski on September 20, 2004 12:39 AM writes...
Cheers for the link - but it's spelled Schachter!
Permalink to Comment2. Sascha Carlin on September 20, 2004 6:58 AM writes...
The content published this way is lost since it is not editable or discussable directly where it lives. Actually a wiki could do a far better job, providing all the features Paste does plus many more.
Writing a hook to delicious for continuingly updateing the links should be simple enough.
Permalink to Comment3. l.m.orchard on September 21, 2004 1:49 PM writes...
These post-its suck. Here, let's use this magic intranet groupware whiteboard.
Permalink to Comment4. Tim on September 21, 2004 1:55 PM writes...
I think the ease of use is the point here. Anyone that is already using delicious can quickly add this into their toolbox rather than having to sit down and learn how a wiki works and then find a public wiki where they can write whatever they want and then figure out how they want to organize the information.
You can use it like post-its, for information you need to record quickly and keep track of but don't need to discuss with the world.
Not that you couldn't discuss it elsewhere. With weblogs the discussion is often on a different site than the original info.
Permalink to Comment5. Liz Lawley on September 21, 2004 3:53 PM writes...
Well, a wiki dosn't make sense if you don't want other people to be able to modify the page. If I have a small piece of static information, and I don't want to worry about logging in somewhere, creating a structure, other people modifying it, etc etc, this is a very elegant and fast solution.
Of course it's not ideal for everything, but as a specific solution to the need to quickly make material available via del.icio.us, it's quite good.
Permalink to Comment6. Isaac on September 26, 2004 11:19 PM writes...
Now Pasta only supports plain text posting. Along this idea, we can extend it to HTML pasting and automatcially update del.icio.us via API, also we can categorize all content from Pasta into a specific group via del.icio.us folksonomy system.
Permalink to Comment7. Maciej Ceglowski on September 27, 2004 9:29 AM writes...
If I hear anyone else use the word "folksonomy", there's going to be blood on the snow.
Fair warning.
-Maciej
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