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Hidden Internet: Delicious Network

One of the most consistently interesting feeds in my RSS reader is my Delicious Network. What’s my Delicious Network? It’s an aggregation of the Delicious bookmarks of people I choose to make part of my network on that site.

The URL is http://delicious.com/network/fraserspeirs. Yours will end in your username.

When you’re on another user’s page the site and logged in, you can choose to add them to your network:

Once you realise that you can do this, the question is then who should you have in your network?

I can’t answer that for you, but here’s my network:

• Adam Lindsay (atl)
• Bill Bumgarner (bbum)
• Beau Colburn (beaucolburn)
• Paul Mison (blech)
• Brent Simmons (brentsimmons)
• Gus Mueller (ccgus)
• Corey Peterson (cflake)
• John Gruber (gruber)
• Josh DiMauro (jazzmasterson)
• Jamie Phelps (jxpx777)
• Buzz Andersen (ldandersen)
• Graeme Mathieson (mathie)
• Merlin Mann (merlinmann)
• Michael McCracken (michael_mccracken)
• Jonathan Wolf Rentzsch (rentzsch)
• Jens Alfke (snej)
• Aaron Straup Cope (straup)
• Todd Dailey (twid)

It’s kind of remarkable, if you think about it, that these eighteen people write the most entertaining linkblog I read. And they don’t even know it.

The Delicious Network is my Secret Internet Ninja Move of 2008. I’m consciously trying to be more of a contributor to Delicious, having mostly forgotten about it until this year. If you want to add me to your network, I’m at http://delicious.com/fraserspeirs.

Totally. It’s even more compulsive when you’ve got the Firefox plugin with the little “network” icon that lights up when there’s new content.

Power delicious tip: writing decent notes. All my favourite users write decent notes, and now there’s 1000 characters to do so it’s more useful than ever. I feel a bit bad for reblogging my links for people who don’t do the network thing, but I love the network functionalities in their own right.