Taming the Internet via the Desktop

One of the funny things about my surfing on the internet is that too often I forget the connections that got me from one page to another. When I keep moving back and forth between my browser, news aggregator, text editor, and bookmark manager. Although a lot of people are working on integrating these applications my biggest complaint is with the one that seems to be most moribund in today’s world: the browser. Surely there has got to be a better way to manage the history displayed by browsers. All of the major ones out there just plain suck IMHO.

The best hope seems to be some of the local, proxy like, solutions that are being worked on by a couple of people: Les Orchard and Agent Frank, Zoe, and HEP by Abe Fettig.

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Todd Suomela
Associate Director for Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Department

My interests include digital scholarship, citizen science, leadership, and communications.