Things 9 and 10

No you're not going crazy - I am doing 9&10 without doing 7&8. That's because I've not used picnik before and I want a chance to play around properly with it, and I haven't yet had time.

Delicious, however, is another one of those things I've been using for years. Though for the purposes of this exercise I started a new account which I will keep work related.



http://delicious.com/susanfgiles


As that has five bookmarks, and will probably only get a new once a month, I will now continue to talk about my old, personal account, which I have been using for years. On that one I have 400+ bookmarks, 176 tags and 16 bundles.

I feel now would be a good time to point out that I love delicious (though I use it for the 'bookmarking' aspect and not the 'social').
I saved my first bookmark back 2006 apparently, and I've used it constantly since then to keep track on lj links, writing magazines/comps etc etc. I like it because the tagging feature makes it really easy to keep track of the many links I have on similar subjects. These aren't links I use on a truly regular basis, maybe once a month or so - my most frequented bookmarks I stick in my browser bookmarks, usually in the toolbar and now on my iGoogle page.

I saw that Jess was not a huge fan of delicious. Having nosed around her links, I think the reason for our differing opinions it the way we use it. I've built a structure of tag bundles (see right) with the tags indicating, for example, what format a writing magazine comes in, whether it allows unsolicited submissions, runs competitions etc etc. This means if I have a piece of writing I want to submit, I can easily track down the list of possible places and then see what the best option is. Or, alternately if I want to read/purchase something I can find it.

As a repository for bookmarks, Delicious really works for me. As a social networking tool, time will tell I suppose, but I doubt it is something I will ever use. I have enough of virtual socialising in my life.