I was playing around with del.icio.us some more today. Some things that struck me–
It brings the whole process of making a bookmark up a level. I often bookmark things, but I don’t always take the time to sort and categorize them. I think this is partly because the way bookmarking or favorites are displayed when I work with them using a web browser is that I can only have so many before they just degenerate into a sludge of links and folders. This is why the date based display combined with the subject tags in del.icio.us is really useful, when I look at my page sometime in the future I can remember that today was the day I was clicking around trying to find examples of how library services were integrated into university portals.
It looks like you can also turn your del.icio.us page into a sideblog. Which makes sense, since it doesn’t seem to be all that difficult to display a RSS feed on a web page if you have the right tools. This might make me finally start experimenting with movabletype plugins. Maybe this weekend. Oh, who am I kidding, I’m probably going to just go to the movies and shop.
I tried to comment on yesterday’s post, but no form came up, so here I am today. On the two word tag problem, just put an underscore between terms, library_instruction. Problem solved.
The date element will indeed prove handy, as you noted. What I like about the whole del.icio.us thing is the ability to apply multiple categories to links, which is cumbersome to do in a traditional bookmarks setup. Also, the ability to see how many others found the same URL worthy of bookmarking is fascinating and leads to lots of other interesting finds. I’m hooked.
Yep, I’ve started putting_an_underscore_between_terms. Works just fine!