Monday
08Dec2008
Hidden Internet: Delicious Network
Monday, December 8, 2008 at 07:25AM
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:
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.
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.
Reader Comments (2)
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.
My Delicious network feed consistently has the highest signal to noise ratio of anything on the internet. I check it every time I'm bored and it's been an invaluable source of inspiration at times. It's too bad Yahoo is so disinterested in developing the social aspects of Delicious; to me it's the key feature.