Bookmarks are Tasty with Delicious

Annotated delicious bookmark page.One of the more popular social bookmarking websites is delicious.  There are two good reasons to consider using a social bookmarking website.  1) Store your bookmarks on a website in order to access them from anywhere, and 2) Share websites with people that have similar interests on topics you care about.  For instance, in my annotated example to the left, 5 other people bookmarked Tim Berners-Lee Short bio.   If you were researching the history of the Internet and needed to find additional sites, you could investigate their list of bookmarks by clicking on their username.  My delicious username is neochem03 and anyone can view my bookmarks by visiting http://delicious.com/neochem03.  Another method for finding sites is to analyze the common tags associated with a saved bookmark.  A good rule of thumb is to look for bookmarks that have at least 3 tags and a comment.  My comment attached to Berners-Lee was “Please, if you use the web, understand its origins.”

Example of social bookmark tools on Education Week article.Delicious was known for having a unique web address; del.icio.us, but was recently relaunched by Yahoo and the extra periods were dropped.  There are many more social bookmarking services available.  Bookmark tools are now standard on many online journals and newspaper sites.  When I click on Del.icio.us a pop window appears to add the article, my comment, and tags to my delicious directory of tasty links.  You can register for a free Delicious account.  Teachers who are in school districts that prevent bookmarking links on school computers should consider social bookmarking as a way save sites.  Of course you need to check that the site is not blocked by filtering software.  How do you save your bookmarks?