Mediations tastes Delicious
While trying to persuade my Level 3 students of the virtues of Delicious I had a flash of inspiration - or discovered the blindingly obvious. Your choice.
I think Delicious is one of the most valuable tools I use. Hardly a day goes by without me tagging something to my account. But I had never thought to tag my own posts to Mediations or Scoop! and take advantage of a very efficient indexing system, much more powerful and instructive than Typepad categories.
Has everybody else been doing this for years....?
I'm not sure I understand what you are doing here. I think I may be over-complicating this in my head. Do you have multiple Delicious accounts (ie one for Mediations and a personal account)?
One of the things I like about Delicious is that it embeds into my browser seamlessly (Flock) without any need to switch between accounts. An essential web-app.
Posted by: Rob | November 13, 2008 at 09:26 PM
No, I just meant saving my own posts to delicious and using the tags to index my own writing. When I was writing a lecture about Max Mosley this week I could find loads of things from other sources that I had tagged 'mosley' but it wouldn't have found my own posts. That's why I am intending saving my own posts as I write. Now I am off to check out Flock...
Posted by: Philip | November 14, 2008 at 08:52 AM
Ah, I see - it all makes sense now. I tend to use a number of different browsers to handle different RSS feeds (some personal, some public, some which I merge into my blog and Twitter etc). I thought from your post that you were doing something similar. I have to admit, the way I manage these things can gets a little confusing when they feature the same feed.
The Flock browser is quite fun and useful too if you use lots of social media sites. It can incorporate services like Digg (news), Twitter, Facebook, Pownce (SNS), Flickr, Youtube (media) into the browser with a handy sidebar. It also lets you tinker with Delicious to get rid of old school local bookmarks in favour of global ones. It also features a blog editor and synchs up with popular email clients like Google and Yahoo mail.
I think it may be responsible for my ADHD though...
Posted by: Rob Jewitt | November 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM
I agree with you that it is a great tool. When it gets to the stage that you have 100s or even 1000s of posts it can become very useful indeed to have something to organize them in a way that is useful to you. I often see a good bit of traffic coming from services like that as well
Posted by: Niall Harbison | February 02, 2009 at 02:29 PM