Social bookmarking for libertarians
Just so you know — yes, it’s true. I’m one of the two diabolical bastards behind a new social bookmarking site for libertarians…
freedomSLUT: Sites, Links, URLs and Tags
The other one being, well, one of the usual suspects.
Here’s the news release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
06/01/06
POC Thomas L. Knapp
admin@freedomslut.comNEW SITE IS FAST, EASY AND GETS (THE WORD) AROUND
The libertarian web community’s newest networking tool — a politically specific social bookmarking site — debuts today at www.freedomSLUT.com.
“Get your mind off of smut — it’s not slut, it’s capital ess ell ewe tee” says Thomas L. Knapp, one of two bloggers behind the effort. “For Sites, Links, URLs and Tags.” But, he admits, he intends to capitalize on the acronym in advertising and promotion.
Knapp, publisher of libertarian sites Rational Review and Kn@ppster, and Brad Spangler, who blogs at BradSpangler.Com and consults for several movement sites and organizations, developed freedomSLUT on the open source Scuttle platform and plan to promote it to the libertarian community as a resource for “finding or flogging” anti-state, pro-freedom bloggage, news and commentary.
“The net is in continuous transition,” says Spangler. “A tool pops up in a discrete community, spreads to the broader web, then gets specialized again. Social bookmarking started out as a tech/geek thing, then went pop, and now we’re bringing it back to a specific group whose members will find it extremely useful.”
freedomSLUT allows for private and public bookmarking, and offers browser and blog template tools to make sharing links easy and convenient.
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Web sites mentioned in this release:
freedomSLUT — http://www.freedomslut.com
Rational Review — http://www.rationalreview.com
Kn@ppster — http://knappster.blogspot.com
BradSpangler.Com — http://www.bradspangler.com/blog
For more information on the software used, Scuttle, check out this Newsforge article.
Complaints can be directed to the circular file.
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Oh Brad! Your scandalous image on this post caused snickers and tut-tuts from the people in the office. Hah! With a name like *freedom slut* they should’ve known better, eh? Prolly get better quality hits than I do with del.cio.us though.
All the best.
Ali