Being in the style of an experiment

[andrewducker]

I've been reading about del.icio.us for a while and wondering what all the fuss is about.

It's a bookmarking service, which isn't even a slightly new idea, but at the same time it seems nice and simple to use, and offers some very nice facilites, including the ability to syndicate links and to search for links based on tags.

I was pointed towards this discussion of what the service is good for, which included a link to this beginners guide, which is well worth a read. I also found Oishii, which lists the most popular bookmarks over the last while. It looks like a cool tech toy, and something I'd like to play with. The official guide is here and very easy to get to grips with.

As I've been thinking for a while about separating out my links from the rest of my journal, and leaving what's left as an 'actual' journal, this seemed like a good way of both doing it. Therefore, once I've got the hang of it, expect a new journal to appear with all my links in it, and this place to become a link-free zone. Well, there will still be links, but only when feel like I've got something to say about them, rather than just a pointer to them.

Comments

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know how you find all these links. I've probably asked you this before, too.

[andrewducker]

http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/links/ will give you a good start :->

[andrewducker]

also
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/news/

[protempore.livejournal.com]

spurl.net is a good online bookmark service, as well--and you can have links added to it also add to del.icio.us. While del.icio.us is an effective social bookmark system, spurl.net itself functions more effectively as an actual online bookmark service. Everything is organized with tags and/or folders and can be exported as bookmarks. You can syndicate any folder as xml, javascript (for webpage embedding) or atom (I implemented the atom :-). The under-promoted streams are also pretty cool for sharing a category (or many categories) -- for instance, a dump of all my bookmarks -- pardon the "ugly" theme, I made it myself :-)

I like the minimalist uber-geek approach del.icio.us takes. But spurl seems to better suit my needs as an actual bookmark manager -- and the sidebar is nice, too.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

As you know, I shifted my links to linkfrenzy some time ago. I find it works well, but I update more slowly now.

[interimlover.livejournal.com]

i've been using Del.icio.us for about a week now and I love it! Glad to see it catching on.