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April 17, 2007
Grayson's Delicious Summary
Delicious is Delicious...by Grayson
Over the past semester I’ve enjoyed del.ico.us’ing as it encouraged me to read more articles and explore the Internet than I might have without the assignment. The majority of the websites that I posted were articles that I found very interesting. These articles were very diverse in topic ranging from summaries of current events to offbeat how to’s, such as one I found about how to get rid of hiccups faster. I also used my del.icio.us to post interesting videos I would find on youtube.com, which my friends in my del.icio.us network might be interested in watching too. The requirement to have half our posts be related to information technology was very helpful. It forced me to read more about the latest developments and technologies that I would otherwise not be as informed about. At first I was quite hesitant and often forgot to post these information technology related sites and articles, but by mid semester I was really engaged, posting mostly these sites.
My favorite feature of del.icio.us was that it displayed how many other people posted the same website. This not only allowed me to see how popular certain topics were, but was an easy way to see what else people with similar interests were looking at or found interesting. Unlike Google, del.icio.us offers other features that make discovery easy such as the “popular” and “recent” pages. These allowed me to quickly see what were the most popularly posted sites on del.icio.us or just see what was most recently posted. Often times I would find some other really cool articles and sites, in which cause del.icio.us served me more like dig.com, a popular book-marking site I use for discovery.
All in all, I would consider my del.icio.us experience to be a valuable one. I’ve never actually participating in a social book-marking site by actually doing the book marking, but rather only by reading other people’s posts. However, after this experience, I think will continue to post (maybe not as frequently though) and someone can find something interesting that they had not seen before. I’d really like to give back to the social book marking community since they have been enlightening me for so long.
For Nikki's (paulinad) Del.icio.us Summary please click here.