Disappointingly, I have not been able to locate my social bookmarking soul mate just yet. I looked long and hard but all efforts were in vain. I’ll continue the search another day, but for now I’ll stop and show you someone, with similar purposes an interests, whom I was able to find.
Berenice de’ Medici has been a contributing member of diigo since March 19, 2009. After searching for tags like “Latin America”, “globalization” and “development” I’m glad I stumbled upon Berenice. She has a total of 68 tags so it probably would not have been that difficult to find her anyway. Her top tags have been politics, Spain, culture, development, law, US and a couple more. But the reason that I remained on her page and browsed her page after finding it is different. Under her most recent Bookmarks and Annotations, I found World Bank Faults Itself for Slow Progress in East Timor - NYTimes.com and Does foreign aid do more harm than good? and Bolivians lose wonder food to world demand and Huh. Sustainable Farming Can Feed the World? - NYTimes.com and so many more. I found this humanitarian in Berenice de’ Medici. Although she may not focus solely on Latin America, she provides this forum where anyone critical of the effects of globalization can visit and really expand their knowledge even more. With 288 Bookmarks, it’s nearly inevitable that you won’t find something which could interest you.
I was able to find smh.com.au through clinking on her bookmark Does foreign aid do more harm than good?. The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), I found after doing some research, is actually a fairly conservative newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney. It’s also the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. A newspaper I never even knew existed, yet it was brought to light through the social bookmarking of Berenice de’ Medici.
Though I am familiar with the New York Times, Berenice did bookmark a blog within the New York Times titled “Dot Earth” which I wasn’t previously familiar with. “Dot Earth” is written by Andrew C. Revkin and examines the efforts to balance human affairs accordingly with the planet’s limits. In the article bookmarked my Berenice, A 10-Year Checkup on Global Goals, he outlines a couple of goals which are essential to the prosperity of future generations.
Her second to last Bookmark People Power , Sojourners Magazine/May 2011 was accompanied with approximately 17 annotations, all related to the topic of civil resistance, “nonviolence”, campaigns, diversity, peaceful mobilization and civil disobedience. These date a couple of months back and she actually hasn’t bookmarked anything since that day of April 26.
Despite the fact that Berenice has few followers, her bookmarking is quite extensive and organized. She’s definitely an asset which I will continue to look into.
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