Why I don’t like web services…

Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes]

I’ve used Del.icio.us for years. I have tons of bookmarks in there. Thankfully I should be able to export the bookmarks. The ability to export your data is rare. In any case, I’d like to have software running on my own machine. If the company goes out of business, I can at least keep running the installed software.

del.icio.us

I unsubscribed from http://del.icio.us/tags/python today. More and more of the links were spam, and it was just irritating going through reading those ridiculous titles. On top of that, their were repeat entries which meant the link should be a bookmark, that can be perused every few days or so at a less frequent pace. Technorati is doing a good job of keeping spam away, but most of the links I get are from livejournal. They are mostly journal entries of people thinking of learning Python, or installing Linux. But their are still some good articles I find, such as "Feeding a Large-scale Physics Application to Python". Hence I'll stay subscribed to those feeds for now.