Meanwhile, back at the farm

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I’ve been using del.icio.us (now http://delicious.com) for over a year to manage my bookmarks for me.  It is essential that I have an online repository for my bookmarks because I often jump to multiple machines and I like to have my bookmarks handy.

I use the official delicious add-on in Firefox to quickly access my delicious bookmarks and to add new bookmarks without even visiting the delicious web site.  I usually only visit the web site when I want to manage (remove/edit) my bookmarks.

delicious advertises social bookmarking, which I never really paid much attention to.  Just having an online repository for my bookmarks was good enough.  But earlier today I was visiting a friends blog and noticed that they also used delicious due to a link on his web site.  After clicking on the link I was taken to the delicious page that showed all of his bookmarks.  As I looked through the list I noticed that there were a lot of things there that looked interesting to me.  I thought, this is sorta like micro-blogging, except with a URL to this person’s favorite sites.  It show’s the things he’s interested in and gives me more insight into the project he’s working on.

It then hit me that delicious offers an RSS feed for the links.  Just like subscribing to a blog, I subscribed to his links in Google Reader.  Now I will automatically get updated with any site he bookmarks.  Beautiful!

If you use delicious, let me know cause I want to follow your links too!  If you want to follow my links, you can click the link on the sidebar of my blog or just jump to this link here: http://delicious.com/mikefarmer