The Ultimate List of Recipe Software. The Best Delicious Alternatives: Social Bookmarking, Social Curation, and More. There is an incredible array of social bookmarking and social curation options on the web, each with different features and a different focus. Since each Delicious user's needs vary, I've tried to include a good representative sample of the options below, but it will be up to you to determine which one best meets your own needs.
For example, if Delicious-style tag bundles are critical for you, you may want to check out Mister Wong. I have marked sites that I recommend with asterisks (***). Please note that recommended sites do not necessarily duplicate the features of Delicious best, but offer an established community, innovative features, or other benefits comparable to the old Delicious. A1-Webmarks has basic bookmarking features but a rather unattractive design, in my opinion. BagTheWeb allows you to collect links, images, and videos into multimedia collections called "bags," which resemble the new Delicious "stacks. " BlogMarks is an invitation-only social bookmarking service.
How To Start a Niche Article Directory With Drupal 6. Why Use Drupal? Drupal is a well established and extremely flexible open-source content management system (CMS) that is used for everything from small personal blogs to The Onion's official website to the popular women's social network PopSugar to the White House's new Recovery.gov website. Drupal also makes a great article directory platform. One of the popular smaller article directory sites run on Drupal is Xomba. Because Drupal is so active and established, it is easy to find information and assistance if you run into problems, and because Drupal is open source, there are literally thousands of contributed modules from the Drupal community, which can extend the core functionality of the program in nearly any direction you could want. For more complicated tasks, it is also easy to find Drupal developers for hire. Before Getting Started In order to create your own article directory with Drupal you need: Content Types Next, add submission settings.
Taxonomy Users Modules and Themes. The Basics of Fanvids. In the interview, Luminosity touched on the reasons fans vid, and also on its precarious legal situation. Much like fanfiction, fanvids are based around copyrighted materials, and unlike fanfiction, even uses those materials directly. Although fans believe that vidding falls under the legal definition of "transformative works," copyright holders do not always agree. Many turn a blind eye to vidding, recognizing that it often amounts to free advertising, but others have pursued legal action against vidders.
In order to protect themselves, vidders never accept monetary compensation for their vids, and most continue to keep a relatively low profile, even as mainstream culture has become increasingly aware of the phenomenon. Why We Vid, Why We Watch The OTW also seeks to preserve and document fan culture, and as part of that effort, has created an interesting documentary about vidding, intended for high school and science/technology students: Getting Started With Fanvids.