Learning Labyrinth

Thing 14 – Social Bookmarking with Del.icio.us

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As I have been using del.icio.us for some time now, I didn’t expect this “Thing” to introduce any new to me. However, I was surprisingly mistaken! I was familiar with tagging and adding descriptions, as well as, adding another’s account to my network. I have been using these features since I first opened my del.icio.us account. However, for some reason I never noticed that you could “subscribe” to a tag that interests you. This was a new discovery for me and I have to admit I am very excited!

As far as my del.icio.us links, I will admit that I am a sloppy and over-exuberant tagger. My tags were a mess and I was slightly embarassed at the idea of posting a link to my del.icio.us page in this blog post. The “mess” was created by numerous redundant tags (i.e. social-bookmarking, social_bookmarking, socialbookmarking), lowercase tags mixed with uppercase tags (yes, I know that may sound silly – but I will admit, it drives me insane!) and countless “unfiled” links. Therefore, I spent hours cleaning up my tags – changing the uppercase to lowercase, deleting instances of redundant tags, and bundling groups of related tags. It’s still not perfect, but at least it is much more “presentable”.

Good luck surfing through the chaos!

http://del.icio.us/dklaus

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