Del.icio.us Link Stroll: Getting Buried is OK, Harry Chooses HD-DVD…

I realized just today that I’ve been religiously linking stories to my del.icio.us account for months now and never actually did much with all of that data. I mainly started using del.icio.us to serve as an easy way to share notable stories with my friends, but it’s now evolved to the point where I basically just use it to drop breadcrumbs around the net. If I find something interesting that I want to refer back to or read later, my mouse goes straight to my del.icio.us button in Firefox.

I thought it would be interesting to do a bit more with my random assortment of cool links, most of which are gathered from Reddit, friends, and a variety of other places online. To this end, I will start a series of posts where I share useful links and why I found them worthwhile.

• Getting Buried in Digg, Not as Bad as it Sounds: If you hadn’t noticed, my last post on Al Gore’s contributions to the start of the internet was unceremoniously buried when it approached 70 diggs. I’m sad that there are those on digg close-minded enough that they would seek to silence such an important story, because it could have easily made the front page and have been read by thousands more. This article goes analyzes digg traffic and shows that getting buried doesn’t necessarily kill the traffic coming to your post.
• Harry Knowles chooses HD-DVD: After remaining fairly quiet on the topic of HD discs, Harry Knowles, the founder of Aint It Cool News has officially thrown down the gauntlet and declared favor for HD-DVD over Bluray. This news is significant because Sony has been declaring that Bluray has won the HD-disc war for some time now. Personally, I still think HD-DVD is the more logical choice for the successor to DVD. You can read more about the war between Bluray and HD-DVD in this Amherst Bytes article.
• 17 Firefox Extensions to Make Blogging Easy: I’m really becoming fond of life hacking sites for great articles like this. To be honest, I had never heard of many of the extensions listed, but now I’m going to work to make them a part of my workflow.
• Speed Up File Copying with Teracopy: I often have to move large files around at work, and I find the single most annoying thing about file-copying in Windows is that it’s incredibly dumb when faced with a corrupted file. For example, if I’m moving 5GB of data and there happens to be a corrupted MP3 in there, Windows will throw an error and cancel the copy job. When this happens you have to sift through each individual folder and sub-folder among the files you want to copy, and figure out which files are actually salvageable. Teracopy prevents stupidity like this and also offers faster copying as well.