A Method to my Madness

To begin, I must borrow and define an internet phrase and phenomenon known as " the Roman Empire for Girls". To those not aware of this term, I imagine it must sound so dumb. But it's actually quite fascinating. 

About a year ago, there was a semi-popular trend on the internet that started with a girlfriend discovering her boyfriend frequently thinks about the Roman Empire. As in the Roman Empire. Like Julius Caesar, gladiators, aqueducts, etc. What followed was a large majority of men admitting that they too, think about the Roman Empire a lot. Of course, there's nothing wrong with this. It's actually pretty endearing. But it started further discourse on what the female equivalent of this is. And there seems to be a general consensus that girls who are history buffs are fixated by a lot of moments in history but the ones it seems we have in common are: Henry VII and his wives, The Salem Witch Trials, and the fall of the Romanov family. 

All that to say, I chose to curate the historic moments/figures/movements that I think about a lot. Which include all of the aforementioned topics as well as Baroque artwork, Lady Jane Grey, and of course the 1997 live performance of Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac. 

Symbaloo was the first curation site I chose. I have to say that Symbaloo's only downside for me is that there are a lot of ads, which makes the screen super busy and overstimulating. However, I like that you can use their search engine and easily add whatever website or source you choose to your curation. I also like that you can use color coding to chunk together topics that share similarities. For example I chunked together "Art History" in orange, "The Tudors" in green, and the main topics of "Girl Roman empires" in purple. This, I thought was the biggest positive to this curation site. 

Listly I did not enjoy. You may notice that there are only 8 items on my list as opposed to 10. For some unknown reason, when I tried to add the 9th entry, it told me that I exceeded the 10 item limit..

....

Um, no I didn't. 

That was particularly frustrating. But that aside, I think it would be a better resource for curating items that sare more of a commonality. I could see myself using it for something like "Top ten best book couples" or "Top ten best episodes of The Sopranos". 

Wakelet is the winner for me. It has a similar positive attribute that Symabloo has in that you can group together similar topics within your list. You can also change the display of items in Wakelet as well as customize the background etc. I found it to be the easiest to use out of the three, with a simpler structure and interface that made it pleasing to the eye and easy to use. 

With that I ask you to tell me what your "Roman Empire" is, or if you also think about aqueducts a lot.