Deliciously simple
May 8, 2006
Bookmarking is old school. Everyone has them. Everyone wishes theirs’ were better organized. Everyone has their own. One way to build a killer, organized set of bookmarks is to use Del.icio.us. (I know it’s a stupid name, especially since you have to remember where the periods are to get the site to pop up.) However, with it you can create a set of social bookmarks. You can share it with your colleagues, you can subscribe to the bookmarks of other people and/or everyone can maintain their own list of bookmarks and build a network. You can even “tag” the bookmarks and keep them organized.
Steph Estes sent me this great link this morning, which explains del.icio.us well and will save me a bunch of typing –
TeacherSource | learning.now . Tag – You’re Delicious! | PBS
If you have a del.icio.us account, let me know and we’ll add you the SEEDling network.
In an effort to prompt our little community I went looking for a quick way to export my existing bookmarks into my del.icio.us account and using wikepedia I found the free Safarilicious. It worked great and even allowed me to “pretag” everything before I exported it. It does allow you to exclude bookmark folders from your up export. A bit of advice – the exclude bookmark folders is case sensitive. I have a folder called “Games” which has links to a bunch of fantasy baseball sites, which I didn’t really want to share with the world. I wrote the exclude test as “games” and watched them get sent to the web.
StyleMac.com » Safarilicious – Export your Safari Bookmarks To del.icio.us
Del.icio.us – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In an email, Mike Arsenault raised the issues of creating a “tagging convention.” Without some predefined thinking our social bookmarking could get a little crazy. Image how many terms you could come up with for a David Warlick podcast. (david warlick, warlick, podcast, podcasting, Podcast, Podcasting, etc) I’ve asked Mike to share his thoughts about what a convention might look like.
May 11th, 2006 at 10:43 am
oohh, I wanted to post the http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/2006/05/tag_youre_delicious.html
site…ggrrr. ~Steph.
ps-here are some other cools ones to check out (not necessarily del.icio.us):
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001049.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/list_of_web_20.php
May 11th, 2006 at 10:45 am
the andy carvin one is good…how about these (not necessarily del.icio.us):
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/list_of_web_20.php
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001049.html
~steph.
May 11th, 2006 at 10:51 am
here are some others to check out-not necessarily del.icio.us:
http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001049.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/list_of_web_20.php
~steph.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:21 am
he, he…thought it wasn’t working–you can see that in my aggravation my post got progressively shorter…steph.
May 11th, 2006 at 11:49 am
A Comment on commenting…
The person who posted the original has to approve the comment. I left this feature on in an attempt to limit commentspam. I think we already have enough offers for viagria and things that make things better in our mailboxes already. I’ve only received one so far, but it’s bound to get worse.
In a classroom setting this seems like a nice feature. Billy hates Susie. And decides to trash her blog post. Susie sees the comment and deletes it. Susie feels empowered.
If this doesn’t seem like the right choice I can open the gates.
- Mike
May 11th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
I recently created my own del.icio.us account, but I have yet to try out the whole sharing or subscribing features that it offers. I like that I can add information to my post so that I can possibly list the context in which the site might be used or even remind myself where I heard about it. I tend to listen to the Seedlings: Bit by Bit podcasts. When I do, I find that I need a browser open so that I can view the sites they are talking about when they share their “Geek” item. Having del.icio.us buttons on my browser makes it easy to post the links to these sites easy and I can then go back to them when I have more time (yeah, right, time). Not having played with the sharing and subscribing part of delicious, I don’t know if you need this or not but my del.icio.us list can be viewed at http://del.icio.us/ryepal
May 11th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
While working on a Seedlings at BitbyBit,we created a delicious account for podcasts we liked. It is here:
http://del.icio.us/seedlings?setcount=25
May 11th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Hi Mike, is there a way to keep the minutes of the meeting here at this blog? Thanks. I think I understand the purpose to gather like minded people. It would be great to have conversations around topics. There has to be something to make me want to check back and see what the latest is.
I will be happy to contribute. Cheryl