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Not quite. I tend to think "If I really enjoyed this, then I should keep it around in case I want to ( loan it to friends || experience it over and over again || glance at it lovingly in reminiscence when I pass by )." It's as though just sending back something I really enjoyed is somehow doing the work, or its creator, a disservice.
Yup. Blog it. Just blog it. You don't need special software, you just need to make an account on Blogger or Wordpress and start writing. Do it now before you catch yourself.
I actually already started writing a while ago, and have managed to keep it up as I encounter new stuff. So I'm already over that (non-trivial!) barrier of just getting to the productive part of the process.
However, running into issues lately has made me decide that a software switch is necessary. Besides the blippr interface issues I already mentioned, it's getting tricky trying to remember any significant proportion of the past stuff I've enjoyed, so that I can write down my feelings about them. I keep thinking of the same 20 old movies or so, even though I'm sure I've seen and enjoyed many times that number.
It's kind of a chicken-egg problem; part of the point of writing down my feelings is to keep this sort of nostalgia-buffer-overflow problem from happening in the first place! I'm hoping that some kind of app with an amazon-like "Maybe you'll like X too!" suggestion system will become evident.
Okay then! I thought you hadn't started on the writing :-)
Yeah, that's a good question. What would make a better review engine than a plain old blog for (a) the writer (b) the reader? I'm actually quite interested in the answer to that one. Something Amazon-like doesn't quite make it for me.