Musings

Delicious and Fever sitting in a tree

10th February 2010

I use delicious a lot, and I’ve been using a very small network with no real enthusiasm, until recently that is! I found myself becoming lazier and lazier with my delicious bookmarks, frequently just scavenging my network’s bookmarks for interesting things and saving them to my own. The people in my network are pretty on the ball (and it this point I should qualify that network is a bit of a misnomer – they’re just people who I follow.) So actually I just cut out the middle man and added my network’s feed to my reader, in this case Fever. This is where the magic happened – all the popular or more noteworthy things that several people had bookmarked instantly popped up in the hot section: good times!

I put forward this tip hesitantly, because if everyone was lazy like this – there would be no new bookmarks: bad times. It’s always good to discover new things rather than just get fed them, so this is a nice way to simply bolster your bookmarks.

So basically, to get noteworthy delicious bookmarks: build up a decent network – perhaps browse the individual’s networks in your own to find new people, then subscribe to the feed in Fever – et voila, popular bookmarks in the hot section. If you’re really lazy, and you can’t even be bothered to build your own network, you could even just subscribe to someone else’s network like mine.