Social Bookmarking Soulmate

After a long, arduous, and often confusing search, I believe I may have found my social bookmarking soulmate, or at least a social bookmarking first date.  Chris39 is the liberal social bookmarking guru that I need in order to find more information regarding health care reform and various other liberal causes.  I have a feeling this relationship between Chris39 and I will be a strong one, but lets profile him to make sure he's "The One."

Chris is quite the social bookmarker and one can only hope he has a life outside of his 3,685 bookmarks.  Essentially, if you want to know about something in politics, especially if it has a liberal bent, Chris has probably read about it.  Hell, he's probably even given his two cents on the article and commented on it.  Scratch that, he's definitely commented on it.  Looking at Chris39's bookmarks, every single page he has bookmarked has a short description of that article as well as his personal opinion on either the article or the larger topic being discussed.  How prodigious is Chris on Delicious?  Looking at his bookmarks, he has tagged and bookmarked articles so obscure or so intensely focused on certain liberal issues that he is the only person who has saved that article.  That is pure dedication to staying informed on the news of the day as well.  Chris does the Delicious community a service by commenting on every post he has ever bookmarked, as he provides a brief, yet insightful summary of the article for anyone who is interested.  Chris doesn't just do this once or twice a week though, or even once or twice a day.  Instead, Chris is bookmarking and commenting on anywhere from five to ten articles.  As I said, pure dedication to knowledge and information.

Chris is also quite creative with his tagging, as he has over 400 tags ranging from ACLU to Zombie.  No, Chris isn't just doom and gloom, he also has a humorous side.  For the most part though, Chris stays true to his liberal self as the vast majority of his tags are political in nature.  His top five tags are Republican, Politics, Economics, Healthcare, and Obama.  That Republican tag can be misleading to the passive surveyor of Chris' page.  When Chris tags a story 'Republican,' it is typically about Republican corruption, incompetence, or articles that chastise the Republican Party and their policies.  These tags aren't just a hodgepodge of random descriptors though.  Chris is very thorough in his tagging, and will tag an article with every tag he feels describes the information present in that article in order to provide an apt, brief description of what is being discussed.  With his fourth most used tag being health care, which he has tagged 264 times, Chris is a valuable resource not only for me, but for any readers of this blog that would like more information on the current health care crisis and liberal reform measures.    

While Chris has bookmarked many articles on The Huffington Post, of which I am already and avid reader, he also exposed me to a couple great sites that have helped me think of ways to expand upon my blog topic.  First, I came across a site that Chris had bookmarked earlier this week title Billionaires for Wealthcare.  This satirical site advocating for the interests of Billionaires, because if we ain't broke don't fix it, takes a humorous approach to the lunacy of the right-wing health care protest rallies and the idiocy of voters looking out not for their own best interests, instead protecting the wealth of health care executives.  The second site Chris introduced me to is Matt Taibbi's Taibblog, which is a part of the larger blog True Slant.  Matt Taibbi is someone I can't believe I hadn't found before, especially after his enlightened post about how the media has helped completely sandbag health care reform.  His insightful and biting wit is great to read, and Taibbi tears apart the forces that are spreading false information about health care reform in order to kill any possible incarnation of reform.

I would like to invite all of the readers of my blog to go check out Chris39's Delicious page and scour through his bookmarked articles.  He has a great collection of information that will help anyone looking to be enlightened on the issue of health care reform.  Chris is definitely a solid resource for my readers and I, and I will be turning to him in for health care updates in the future.  Once again Chris39, I would like to thank you for our wonderful first date.  I have a feeling this relationship is definitely going to go the distance.  Do I hear wedding bells?