Back to del.icio.us

In going back to delicious, I was momentarily surprised to discover that my delicious account no longer existed, even though I thought I had migrated it when prompted way back when changes to delicious's ownership was happening... and my user name still existed, as I discovered when I tried to create another account with my real name.

Once that hurdle had been crossed and I had refreshed my memory by reading the help section on delicious I was able to save links again quite easily. 

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One new reason to like delicious (as much time has passed since I last used it) was that it will save me a lot of time saving bookmarks/favourites to the multiple web browsers I have since installed on my computer.

Why do I have more than one web browser?

Because not every browser would let me use all of the tools I had installed on my computer.

When online I would save websites of interest but if I couldn't remember which browser I had saved it on I would have to check what was stored for the browser I was currently using and would then have to save it again, and again until all browsers shared the same information.

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My attempts at searching delicious using my browser address bar just seemed to result in a jumbled mess of sites which were not really relevant to my search terms. for e.g. http://delicious/tag/books+fantasy

got me sites from for e.g. 

http://www.deliciousorchardsnj.com/ --> which offers "baked goods, the finest meats and cheeses with a unique deli, prepared foods, and grocery sections" 

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Searching my links using the search box when logged on to my delicious account also was a bit hit and miss.  Even tags that I could see quite clearly existed sometimes did not appear when searched for!

The steps for finding new bookmarks from the public libraries blog 

(http://publiclibrariesnewtechnologies.blogspot.com.au/2009/11/delicious.html) 

didn't work as the delicious inbox was empty!

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So, although I have rediscovered a use for using delicious, it doesn't really go beyond keeping my favourite website links in one place as I have found that searching the web provides better results than searching delicious.

 

Del.icio.us ways of keeping track

I like Del.icio.us very much. This can be extremely useful in preserving perpetual (as long as del.ici.ous exists) access to the websites regularly visited on communal staff library computers.

At present our information desk computers have a number of favourites saved for the internet. However, this is regularly cleaned out, as what one staff member considers relevant and important for quick access, another does not.

If we bookmarked Del.icio.us then we could still visit our own individual list of favourites which could be accessed from all computers.

Del.icio.us could also be saved as a favourite on the public access internet computers. The library could create an account with particular pages of regularly requested websites listed for quick access.

This would save staff time and decrease customer frustration as we would both no longer have to go through the multiple steps involved in locating the required information. A classic example involves trying to locate the practice driver knowledge tests on the RTA website (www.rta.nsw.gov.au).