Social Bookmarking Soulmate

The Internet and blogging world can feel a bit lonely sometimes, you never know who is reading your posts or if they like it or not, unless they comment, which is not often if you are a new blogger with no contacts or references. Luckily, diigo provides a way for anyone to find someone who has similar interests to their own, and find more websites that might be of interest to them, or possibly a new friend!

I am new to both diigo and social bookmarking so it was a little hard for me to find my "social bookmarking soulmate" but, after typing in some of my favorite website's URL's on the "search people page", I was able to find my possible "soulmate."

Since I am really into music, my bookmarks and tags consited of a lot of music blogs, concert websites, music stores, and radio station homepages. I typed in Pitchforkmedia's URL in the find people page, and although it is a popular site that a lot of people have tagged I was able to find someone who had tastes very similar to my own: journalista89.

Journalista's bookmarking topics vary from journalism to art, but music is definitely the most prominent tag. Journalista has tagged radio stations, blogs, music networking sites (last.fm!), and music charts pages, all of these music bookmarks deal with mainly indie music. In fact, there are only three different kinds of bookmarks lists: blogs, music communities, and music sites.

Journalista does not have too many bookmarks all together (about 20), so her tags are not numerous, but they are well organized, and in categories like: types of music, specific cities, people, blog names, etc.

Even though she does not have a ton of bookmarks or tags, her profile is more extensive than most diigo users, and you get a real sense of who she is from the info on her user page/profile. Journalista and I have a lot of music in common including: Los Campesinos!, The Postal Service, The Decemberists, (and a few of my "guilty pleasure artists") Dashboard Confessional, and Say Anything. Like me, she enjoys city life, the movie A Streetcar Named Desire, and the game show, Jeopardy (anyone who admits whole-heartedly to liking Jeopardy is alright in my book!).

We all know soulmates are hard to find, and although "love at first sight" may work for some people, I feel that you need to get to know someone before you call them your soulmate. So, for the moment, I will "get to know" journalista, and see if she has any cool, new bookmarks about food or music (we all know the true way to my heart is music compatibility!) that I too find resourceful.

I have already found a cool new site by looking at her "indie" tag: The Hood Internet. It's a site with a bunch of really cool mix-ups / mash-ups of hip hop, r&b, and indie artists, like Paper Route Ganstaz vs. Animal Collective, sounds weird, but it is actually kind of awesome!

I hope that journalista and my bookmarking relationship will blossom, and that I will eventually call her my social bookmarking soulmate, but for now, I will continue searching...