For a while I’ve been toying with the idea of using the del.icio.us experimental blog posting feature, and yesterday I did the deed. So a little after midnight, when I was fast asleep, the bookmarks I’d made yesterday were posted on this blog.

In theory, from henceforth this should happen every day when I link in del.icio.us. For what it’s worth, I don’t link that often, being a moderately picky bookmarker. Typically sites I choose are utilitarian and related to constructing websites.

Del.icio.us 101

I expect most of you already know about del.icio.us, but in case you don’t, it’s a “social bookmarking website” – meaning that registered users get to share their lists of web favorites. It’s a great example of the extreme potential of databases. Take some simple information from many sources, get a critical mass of it, develop a few tools for it, and you can serve it up in an amazing variety of ways.

If there really is a Web 2.0 (something I question, given all the hype about it), then del.icio.us is my favorite example.

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