Mmmm, delicious.

I've had a delicious account for some time but admit to not paying enough attention to it beyond periodically having a huge clearout of tags I no longer need. It was a pleasant surprise to see that delicious now has the domain name delicious.com so one no longer needs to type in the trickier del.icio.us. I tagged the bookmark for my blog with ox23 and then searched on that tag to see what other participants had been saving - a neat way to organize all the bookmarks associated with an event, I hadn't thought of using tagging this way before.

I have been trying out the Google Chrome browser recently, but it doesn't yet have full-featured delicious tools like those for IE and Firefox, and this is a real if temporary drawback. I have gotten used to having my tag bundles across the top of my browser so that I can easily select the "media" bundle to check newspapers etc. I'm sure the tools will be along soon, but it made me realize how much I've come to rely on delicious.

Fun with picnik

Decided to make a Wallander valentine (a day late I know) and add it to the group pool. I put a big red bow on the Mariagatan sign, surrounded it with a red vignette, and then added some creative commons licence stickers for good measure.

Flickering

Slightly embarassing to admit - I changed my flickr screen name last week and broke the link to the flickr widget on my blog. Easily remedied however, I just had to edit the widget settings with the right flickr name and my photos were back. I've been enjoying seeing all the photos added to the group pool and also the creative Picnik work! Today I added a few more of my photos, some of Ystad, Sweden for any Kurt Wallander fans out there.

More features than you can shake a stick at

I've just enabled the feature that lets you easily send an RSS feed item to Facebook, twitter or delicious from within Google Reader. The mind boggles.

More fun with Google Reader

I decided to see what other feeds Google Reader might suggest for me based on my current reading habits. Once I got over the fact that one of them was "Cute Overload", I enjoyed checking out my new subscriptions, including Gizmodo. It is very geeky.

I then went to check out my Shared Items page, which I had never looked at before. I set it to use the Ninja theme, and made it visible to everyone. There was an easy click-button way to add a Shared Items gadget to my blog, so I did.

Google Reader and subscribing to the 23 Things Blog

I love Google Reader and use it every day. Sometimes I wish it had a more visually exciting interface, but in general, it brings me the RSS feeds I follow and allows me to organize them into folders, so I am a happy user. I never knew about the N and P shortcuts to use while reading a feed, and this will be extremely useful!

Above is a screen grab of my tag cloud from my Google Reader Trends, as you can see, the word "fun" is quite substantial, probably thanks to Boing Boing and Icanhascheezeburger. I am pleasantly surprised to see that "food" is rather small.

Making the rounds

I'm making my way around all the 23 Things participants blogs and leaving comments - There are so many that I'm only about halfway through the list, which is fantastic. It is interesting to see the different approaches that people are taking, some using the blog as a resource for a group endeavour, others taking the opportunity to share their interests with us (Devoured by Vegans I'm looking at you :-) I would write more here but I'd better get back to my commenting...