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The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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Re: The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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Post by jotto »

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering:

  * quality decline of Google search results
  * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us)
  * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

Re: The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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Post by fastball »

Honestly, I'm disappointed that there isn't any prose / new content involved in this "book".

I think it would be nice to have an actual "book", with community-composed chapters. They would follow the same topics listed here, but with actual cohesive explanations and background, rather than just a list of resources.

For example, looking at the first section (Shells), it would be nice to have an actual bit of writing which tells you about the evolution of shells and why some might be preferred over others.

Awesome Lists[0] already does a pretty good job of maintaining a collection of curated lists.

0: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

Re: The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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Post by amrrs »

jotto wrote: post #3

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

Or a good archive that could be referred later. that could be an easy option with delicious but these aggregation helps in very quick reference of something that's required. Also browser and device independent.

Strange it might seem, I'm managing a personal list https://github.com/amrrs/Interesting_Links which helps me to read later and share it with someone in future.

Re: The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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Post by DaftDank »

jotto wrote: post #3

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

Personally, what I like about it is that it steers me in different directions of learning. When a list like this is curated by the right person, it can help you weed through a lot of low-value content sites, with similar information.

Re: The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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Post by peruvian »

jotto wrote: post #3

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

> What's causing the rise of these curated lists?

People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy.

The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless.

Sindre (original awesome list author) is one of the few who actually curates their lists.

Re: The Book of Secret Knowledge – A collection of lists, blogs, hacks

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Post by noonespecial »

jotto wrote: post #3

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering: * quality decline of Google search results * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us) * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

The quality decline is real:

I'm searching for one line of text. Every click gets me 100 meg of browser-choking script that leaves me bashing at the close tab button just to get the session back.

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