Comments on: Taking del.icio.us for granted

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:18:24 +0000

Hi Pete! what an excellent post! youve got me thinking about all kinds of stuff i want to do with our blog (were now playing with a demo version in anticipation of launching it soon!). i also never knew what a feedburner was until about 10 minutes ago and im still trying to get my head around it.

one thing i struggle with is the information overload that comes with having it so easily accessible! on the right side of your page i see your del.ici.ous bookmarks, on the left side i see your RSS feeds… and as a user i’m asking myself “how are they different?”, because qualitatively you’ve got the same kind of stuff in both.

By: Pete Shelton

Pete Shelton — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:28:54 +0000

Thanks for the comments everyone. I’ve corrected the Euforic link and included a link to Alexandra’s blog. Perhaps the coolest thing about del.icio.us I forgot to mention relates to the link rolls and tag rolls that can be found under “settings.” These allow you to copy and paste your content from del.icio.us into any webpage. Happy futzing!

By: alexanjorge

alexanjorge — Wed, 28 May 2008 05:53:54 +0000

Hi Pete,

Very nice to know that our sessions were so inspiring for you too! That makes me feel better, so we both gained with the various hours spent on the computer… Nice summary, and a good refresh/remind/revision for me still!

Alexandra

By: euforic

euforic — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:50:33 +0000

Hi Stephan,

On the RSS, it’s a bit of a workaround and not at all automatic!

If you manually tag interesting resources in delicious, say of FAO, you can generate ‘your’ feed of FAO resources. Much better of course would be that they produce their own feeds. Even then, I find most organisations still make ‘a’ or a few pre-defined feeds available which might not be quite what I am looking for.

We probably need to be learning from services like google news where any search result can be turned into an alert or a feed…. In the meantime using delicious, as you mention, any tag can become a feed…. which offers lots of potential…

cheers

Peter

By: Euforic

Euforic — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:54:43 +0000

Hi Pete,
nice post. Just want to let you know that the link for the Euforic website is not working. Guess it needs the ‘ www ‘ in front.

Cheers
Martin Behrens

By: Stephan

Stephan — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:36:32 +0000

Hi Peter, the last bit of your comment intrigued me. Can you expand on how to generate feeds from websites without RSS through delicious? Would that update automatically as with a blog feed for instance?
thanks, Stephan

By: euforic

euforic — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:09:39 +0000

Hi Pete. very nice …

At euforic (and iaald) we use feedburner between del.icio.us and the web page just because it gives us some extra control over the look of the feed – and we get some stats on the feed usage, and we can set up email alerts for each.

I personally like the ‘network’ and ‘fan’ possibilities where I can tap into the bookmarks of other people who share interests in similar issues. See what we are doing with the ‘npk4dev’ or ‘e-agriculture’ tags! We could probably do a lot more together like this.

Final thought: With del.icio.us, it’s also possible to tag and then generate rss feeds from web sites and organisations that have yet to get hooked on, or produce, RSS feeds….

Cheers, Peter Ballantyne

By: Stephan

Stephan — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:29:57 +0000

Small update/correction: Pete and I were just putting together a session on RSS and alerts for our colleagues at IFPRI and realized that when you do a del.icio.us search, the results page does unfortunately not offer a feed.

By: sstaiger

sstaiger — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:24:45 +0000

Excellent post Peter. We need to talk about the possibility of doing the webinars! Those tips and hands-on exercises would be extremely useful for many CG staff and research partners.
I would have loved to be in that session with Alexandra!