Networking

I've added some other libraries to my network on delicious, and in the process realized what went wrong when I tried this recently and had trouble. I had clicked on a little Add to your network link, but did not see that I had to click on OK to confirm the addition. Sorted.

I'm enjoying exploring the links in my new expanded network - I am sure I'll be bookmarking some of the sites to visit again. The Language Centre Library provided a link to a site of helpful phrases in a variety of languages, so I could now ask someone if they like bagpipes, in Breton. As you do...

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.