April 16, 2007
Del.Icio.Us Summary
Last Thursday, I blogged about del.icio.us for my group's blog assignment. Here's the link to that entry: My group blog Del.Icio.Us Post. It details my experience with the social bookmarking site and why I found it very useful.Here are more thoughts on del.icio.us...
Over the past semester, I've posted on del.icio.us almost everyday, amassing over 140 bookmarks. The majority of them are information technology (IT) related, including articles about the latest news in IT. Even though I typically wouldn't bookmark IT websites for fun, the ones that I did bookmark will be very useful for me in the future, especially sites like webopedia.com, which has useful technology definitions, and The Bare Bones Guide to HTML, which lists every common HTML tag all onto one page.
Besides IT, I have a wide assortment of bookmarks that show my various interests, one of the main ones being entertainment news/gossip. In order to keep all these bookmarks organized and easy to find, I tagged extensively and created different Tag Bundles to group related tags. Therefore, if I'm in the mood to check out an entertainment site that I like, I just go to del.icio.us and look under my "Entertainment" bundle. If I need to do some researching for a project (which I did many times during this semester for my classes), I check out the links I have under my "Search,Tools,and Tips" bundle. Though I only currently have 9 bundles, I know I'm going to end up making more as my bookmark list expands because bundling really facilitates the del.icio.us search process.
At first, I relied heavily on the search engine, google,, to find IT websites to bookmark. Many of the sites I found were great sources for information technology news including techweb.com and infoworld.com. However, after a while, I needed to find another way to search for links because google returned the same search results every time. Thus, I turned to del.icio.us's hot list, located on the main page, where I found recent popular sites for the day (luckily, most of these are usually technology related). Occassionally I browsed people's del.icio.us accounts, including friends on my network, to see what IT links they had by clicking on tags related to IT such as "technology", "web", etc. However, the most effective method that I found for discovering interesting IT websites is going to digg.com every morning.
Digg is a place where digg users can post and share sites that they "digg" (aka find interesting) with other people. The sites with the most recent popular diggs are on the front page. Though not all sites are IT-related, I often found myself enjoying the browsing experience and checking out different kinds of websites that I would never have looked for before. More often than not, I'd find a link on digg that would eventually lead me to some piece of information technology news that I would post onto del.icio.us.
Overall, I enjoyed using del.icio.us and discovering its many benefits. It is a tool that I will continue to use outside of BIT 200 because it organizes and stores my bookmarks so well. I recommend it to anyone who loves to browse the net.
My del.icio.us account
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February 08, 2007
Discovery Tools
After browsing http://samoore.stikipad.com/technology/show/Search, I decided to look under the "Other interesting tools in technology" link. In this section is a list of handy sites that aren't related to searching, but rather a list of useful internet tools. I eventually stumbled upon tadalist.com.
I always like to make lists of things to do because it makes it easier for me to organize and plan my day. Now, after going to tadalist.com, I can do it all online and share it with my friends instead of writing my lists on post-it notes that are easily lost. The best part, it's free! It makes creating lists easy and efficient by keeping track of the bullets that you've accomplished and enables you to make more than one list. Since it's web-based, there's no downloading involved making the whole process even more simple. Tadalist.com also keeps your security in mind because you can make your lists private or public. The only downside is that you have to have internet to access your lists, but considering how often i'm online and how easy it is to get online here at Michigan, I don't really see that as a major problem, just a slight inconvenience.
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January 26, 2007
Chapter 12
Body goes here
Headings are cool!
| Tables | give | impact! |
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Chapter 9
Click Here to Go to Section 2!
This Is Section Two
Click Here to Go to Section 3!
This Is Section Three
Click Here to Go to Section 1!
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Chapter 8
Hey I'm Purple Change My Color!
This page Copyright © Little Joe's Pages & davesite.com.
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Chapter 7
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Headings are cool!
- pencils
- pens
- erasers
- paper
- glue
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 5
Body goes here
Headings are cool!
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Chapter 4
Body goes here
Headings are cool!
I can use text links... Visit Dave's Site!
and Image Links...
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Chapter 3
Body goes here
Headings are cool!
Bold text is fun!
Underline is cool too!
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January 25, 2007
Chapter 2
Body goes here
Headings are cool!
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HTML Test
Hello, World!
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