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Daily Bookmarks are Dead. Long Live Daily Bookmarks

16 November, 2004 at 01:46 PM
categories: weblogs
I'm tired of maintaining my "link log":http://ned.suckahs.org/daily.php within my "MT":http://moveabletype.org installation. It was something I hacked together a long time ago, and never spent the time to properly sort out. Daily bookmarking is becoming quite popular these days... I remember when "Anil's":http://www.dashes.com/anil/ sidebar _was_ my daily lunchtime reading. Now, I've got a news aggregator with hundreds of feeds going. Enter "Social Bookmarks"... "Del.icio.us":http://Del.icio.us is filling that niche for bookmarks that "Flickr":http://flickr.com/people/nedward is for photography... It's an easy service to use, hosted off-site, which can be quickly integrated into your existing web log. And, there is that "social" component, which encourages community sharing. So, as you may have noticed, my "del.icio.us":http://del.icio.us/nedward bookmarks are now updated, in-line, once per day. "RSS feed":http://del.icio.us/rss/nedward is available as well. *UPDATE:* "Someone":http://presley.suckahs.org/ that I know, (and that I may or may not share a bed with), has her "own del.icio.us":http://del.icio.us/presley feed going.. So, the schism has begun... with "RSS":http://del.icio.us/rss/presley.

Comments

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Stephen O'Grady Stephen O'Grady
wrote on Nov 16, 2004 2:39 PM

great to see another del.icio.us user - i’m a big fan of the service. in case you want to expose the links in your sidebar, this is the hack i got to work: http://dionidium.com/2004/02/del.icio.us-0.2. there are a bunch of other options available, and i have no connection to that site, but thought i’d mention it b/c it took me a while to hunt around for a simple way to do that.

cheers,

sog

Adam Bramwell Adam Bramwell
wrote on Nov 16, 2004 10:50 PM

I don’t know if the splicing really works for me, a sideblog implementation is more flexible in my opinion.

Regardless, at the moment I also splice my delicious links in posts, because it’s simpler. It does have one effect though - you quickly become aware of the number of sites you visit when your bookmark posts quickly outnumber the ‘real content’ on your site.