More del.icio.us fun

The social bookmarking engine del.icio.us has added a cute new feature: tagging for other people. If you tag your bookmark for:tikitu, it will magically appear in a private part of my del.icio.us account, which I’m sucking up as an RSS feed. Anyone else doing this? (Robin, Robert, I’m looking at you guys in particular.) Seems a pretty good replacement for mailing links.

Until the evil spambots figure it out, anyway.

Update: So I just received my first link, which raises an interesting question: How do I say Thank You? If I mail the dude, we might as well have used email for the entire exchange. On the other hand it seems somehow churlish to just absorb this thoughtful gesture without any comment at all. I’ve settled for adding the page to my own del.icio.us, and crediting the source in the extended comment. Anyone else have any thoughts on the matter? Or am I the only one devoting any worry time to this? Probably the latter.

Comments

Sep 29, 2005 at 12:09 • justl0l

ha, that is how i got referenced in your del.icio.us description. I was wondering how that happened. The other way around is done automatically, as the tag for:tikitu is still in my tag list. But hey, bookmarks are memes. No need to thank me for putting a meme in your head. If i would own those memes i could make good fortune, but i guess it is already licensed under some creative commons license ;-)

Sep 29, 2005 at 12:09 • tikitu

Yeah, on the other hand if you send me a link by email I send something back saying "Thanks, it was interesting" or "Thanks, I'll look at it later". Guess I'm trying to make the new media work the old way, like always. Just call me Tikitu Luddite (and burn your printing press).

Sep 29, 2005 at 12:09 • tikitu

Erm... cotton mill. Whatever.

Sep 29, 2005 at 23:09 • Robert Anton Reese

The broble with this scheme is that I often email several people a link simultaniusly. To work this i'd actually have more work, emailing to some, del.icio.using to others. Also since I only use del.icio.us for my browser bookmarks (thanks foxylicous) I'd never notice if someone gave me a link through this method.

Sep 30, 2005 at 11:09 • tikitu

Well, this just goes to show that everyone should be using del.icio.us. As far as *getting* links, I've got an RSS feed from my private whatsit in Bloglines, which I check more-or-less every day. I think actually the links you're sent don't automatically enter your main collection. It's not going to be the case for everyone, but I find that almost everything I send to anyone I also bookmark for myself, in which case there's no difficulty. (Aside: del.icio.us to me somehow follows the gmail rule: collect absolutely everything, throw nothing away, and trust that the search and tagging tools are good enough to find what you're looking for. Very different model to in-browser bookmarks.)