Mar 12 2008
who says librarians (and teachers) don’t like tags
Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way to help their students and patrons learn. This makes perfect sense to me as a college student because I bookmark and tag references for all my projects and I’d love to see similar collections from my professors and classmates.
I don’t know who first realized the potential of Delicious for education, but I’ve seen a huge amount of community documentation created by teachers and librarians to help each other understand what this place is, why it’s valuable, and how to use it. Here are some of my favorite bookmarks:
- Top 100 Tools for Learning — according to lists contributed by learning professionals, Delicious ranks first. Last year we were second only to Firefox.
- Library Journal explains why Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us.
- 7 things you should know about Social Bookmarking (PDF) is a primer from a university perspective, written by EDUCAUSE.
- How Delicious is changing academic research: a PhD student says “Delicious is the Rome, Jerusalem, and Paris of my existence as an academic these days. It’s where I make my friends, how I get the news, and where I go to trade.”
- A PBS Teachers blog takes “a look at the wonderful world of del.icio.us”.
- A collection of links to libraries that use Delicious, including many university libraries, with additional links to resources and tools.
- All about social bookmarking tools on the Teaching Hacks wiki.
- Social bookmarking on the Classroom 2.0 wiki. A couple of us (Stephen Hood and Chris Kim) spoke about Delicious at the Classroom 2.0 conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago.
- Networking with Del.icio.us — a short screencast by an instructional technology specialist which explains “your network” and “links for you”.
Bonus bookmark: a profile of Joshua as the MIT Technology Review’s Young Innovator of 2006, including part of the story of Delicious’ origins.
Britta Gustafson · britta Tags: showcase bookmark this


65 Comments Add your own
C. Wess Daniels | Mar 12 2008 at 7:31 pm
fantastic post! thanks for all the links and ideas. I’m also a PhD student and have found many uses for delicious and am not sure what I’d do with out it.
Devang | Mar 12 2008 at 7:52 pm
Fix the del.icio.us extension for FF3 please! Pretty Please? :)
Britta Gustafson | Mar 12 2008 at 7:56 pm
Devang: We will, as soon as we can!
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jarvis | Mar 13 2008 at 12:12 am
PhD student And delicious?
i want some photo,
Melissa Rethlefsen | Mar 13 2008 at 5:03 am
Thanks for highlighting my article–I’m on del.icio.us all day, every day, so it was nice to share my addiction with other librarians.
Angela CW | Mar 13 2008 at 5:25 am
Thanks for sharing my Delicious libraries list.
I’m will continue updating the list, as more and more libraries embrace the *power* of delicious!
angela
http://angelacw.wordpress.com
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Billy Grimwald | Mar 13 2008 at 5:45 am
The tagging and folksonomy fad reminds me of how, back in the 90s everyone’s personal web page was a long list of non-annotated links, organized by keywords or subjects.
The problem is that these things grow untill they are totally worthless and boring, such that they go out of date, and are quckly abandon and forgotten.
People don’t go to lists to find information, they use Google, get over it.
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Sukhdev Singh | Mar 13 2008 at 7:35 am
Well it does not make news for me. It is very natural for librarians to (i) select best resources and (ii) organize them in most helpful manner for their users. They have been doing it for centuries in their libraries.
Angela | Mar 13 2008 at 12:02 pm
“People don’t go to lists to find information, they use Google, get over it.”
Try searching del.icio.us …. you’ll be surprised what isn’t in Google.
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jonathan aka goochy | Mar 14 2008 at 3:07 pm
gday i just stumbled upon your blog exellent stuff thanks for sharing makes the world heaps better cheers!
Jeton | Mar 15 2008 at 5:26 am
Here’s another usage of del.icio.us:
Ditch the Bookmark Feature of Firefox and use the del.icio.us extension always.
http://aliji.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/how-to-ditch-the-firefox-bookmarks-and-live-happily-with-delicious/
bensto | Mar 15 2008 at 6:37 am
that great article.never know before about that.delicous for education
Caio | Mar 15 2008 at 1:48 pm
Not related to the article:
Will we ever get an official del.icio.us extension for Firefox 3 from you guys?
Thanks
Britta Gustafson | Mar 15 2008 at 1:55 pm
Caio: Yes! We’re working on it.
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Peter Franken | Mar 17 2008 at 11:35 am
How long does this new version of Del.icio.us take ? It seems ages ago and the sneak preview is limited for invites !!! Not very democratic I must say!!
JW | Mar 17 2008 at 4:33 pm
Bibliothèques de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne have a great account, descriptive, systematic and fully tagged: http://del.icio.us/bibliparis4
Kudos!
C. Wess Daniels | Mar 17 2008 at 10:29 pm
@Jarvis - I went ahead and did a post on how I use delicious for my doctoral research. I hope it helps… http://gatheringinlight.com/2008/03/17/tips-for-using-delicious-in-doctoral-research/
Charles | Mar 18 2008 at 2:14 am
Great Post!
Why should librarians shy del.icio.us?
Indeed why should librarians shy any technology that engages the users in organizing?
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Mike Peterson | Mar 18 2008 at 8:45 pm
Is everyone here *so* in love with del.icio.us?
Has anyone seen this:
http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/2008/01/18/10-Reasons-for-Simpy-vs-del-icio-us.html
Thoughts?
Josh A. | Mar 21 2008 at 5:05 am
@mike The post itself admits that del.icio.us has better browser integration than Simpy, with delicious 2.0 the search will be much improved - faster, better, notes - del.icio.us is a social BOOKMARKing service, not a personal organizer, privacy - again, the post admits del.icio.us *does* have this feature, natural tags - del.icio.us introduced tags to social bookmarking, you wouldn’t be making this point if it wasn’t for them, groups - del.icio.us hasn’t quite got round to stealing flickr’s ideas yet.
delicious 2.0 not hear yet? scaling problems? uh, del.icio.us is so popular that scaling actually *is* an issue for them. it would be nice (hint, hint) if blog posts were more frequent, but the del.icio.us team isn’t being non-transparent about the issue - they admitted that they’re behind schedule, and it’s because they’re making del.icio.us even better.
SafeLibraries.org | Mar 21 2008 at 2:34 pm
I use http://del.icio.us/plan2succeed to track media reports about library crimes related in some significant way to the libraries themselves. I hope it is useful for others as well.
Already it has been recognized for being useful by LibraryStuff who said, “Want to stay current on library porn/filtering/computer news? this is the place. Of course, it’s one sided, but it’s better than no sided.” See http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/03/16/plan2succeeds-bookmarks-on-delicious/
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Jonathan Watmough | Mar 24 2008 at 7:03 pm
I love del.icio.us, but I’m really tired of having to reset my tags to cloud view, and to 100 items per page every month or so.
Could this be added as a profile setting?
It would be great. It’s a pain to have to reset this from different machines, and it really kinda spoiles my enjoyment of coming in and browsing thrugh my tags.
Gift Bird | Mar 25 2008 at 7:58 am
As a psychologist and occupational therapist I will share this knowledge with my clients too. GREAT IDEA!
Deb
truedough | Mar 25 2008 at 1:59 pm
Is there anyway to make an account private (I wish to do this only temporarily), or make it visible only to people in my network?
Alternatively, is there anyway to change my account url?
Ironically (sort of) given the content of this post, I wish to hide my account from a snooping professor. I don’t want to give it up permanently though — it’s a very useful work tool.
Britta Gustafson | Mar 26 2008 at 12:56 am
Jonathan: Those options should be saved in your cookies indefinitely, but it’s the expected behavior that they have to be set again when using another browser. This is because you might not want the exact same options on different computers with different screens, purposes, internet connections, etc. Not everybody finds that feature useful though (including you!), so it’s on our list of items to think about.
Truedough: Unfortunately, Delicious doesn’t have a quick way to deal with your situation. We’re working on some useful things for the future, but I know that won’t help you at this moment. So, right now, here are a few ideas. You could make your bookmarks private (edit each one and select “do not share”) and then later make each one public again. Or, you could export your bookmarks (from your settings), delete your account, and then import your bookmarks into a new account with a different name. You could even delete your account, re-create it with the same name, and re-import your bookmarks — because all imported bookmarks are private by default — but you would lose your network contacts.
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matthieu | Apr 1 2008 at 1:42 am
Who says that del.icio.us is sloooooowwww as hell and that they never tell about it ? Well will you improve response times ?
Postzillo | Apr 3 2008 at 10:11 am
Awesome resource. Thanks for the links. I would definitly have to agree with Singh up there. With tags, who find things way more targeted then by using Google.
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nagarajurapolu | Apr 8 2008 at 12:29 pm
Thanks this is very helpful.
Anitra | Apr 9 2008 at 3:55 pm
I am visiting this site as a direct result of a Small Library Management class that I took yesterday. Our library is going to use delicious to make a frequently used site list with links for our internet patrons. Hopefully this will make ours and their lives much easier.
Paid Survey Guide | Apr 10 2008 at 2:38 am
Awesome. It seems Del.icio.us has great potential for education. It can help reveal very useful internet resources for students and teachers.
Ranganathan | Apr 13 2008 at 7:18 pm
Hi, the delicious search engine is truly faster, I appreciate that. It would be better if it is more intelligent. Example: I wanted to search my links for URLs related to http protocol. When I searched for http in ‘my bookmarks’, I was shown the entire list of all URLs I had saved in delicious. That’s really sad, esp when you work under the great Yahoo! banner. [yes, I know every URL starts with the string http.] But it is no way acceptable to match for that ‘http’. It defies common sense.
Cheers,
Ranganathan
ani625 | Apr 14 2008 at 6:07 am
del.icio.us is down down down!
Francisco A A | Apr 14 2008 at 6:32 am
Delicious is out. ?
Alex | Apr 14 2008 at 6:35 am
Down, and not even returning 404/500/502/whatever, but loading a blank page.
marc | Apr 14 2008 at 6:40 am
How about some sort of information as to why it is down and when it will be returning?
Victor | Apr 14 2008 at 6:43 am
Traceroute from CERN in Switzerland:
$ traceroute del.icio.us
traceroute to del.icio.us (69.147.76.140), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 r31-s-rhpzm-1-da2.cern.ch (128.141.28.65) 0.322 ms 0.568 ms 0.552 ms
2 b513-c-rhpzl-2-sb51.cern.ch (194.12.142.1) 0.298 ms 0.516 ms 0.503 ms
3 b513-b-rfte6-2-rb50.cern.ch (194.12.132.49) 12.185 ms 12.188 ms 12.195 ms
4 g513-e-rci76-1-pg2.cern.ch (194.12.144.41) 1.502 ms 1.884 ms 2.148 ms
5 g513-e-rci76-1-fe1.cern.ch (192.65.184.165) 2.220 ms 2.265 ms 2.333 ms
6 e513-e-rci76-1-pe1.cern.ch (192.65.184.161) 1.285 ms 1.614 ms 1.625 ms
7 g4-2.ar8.gva.ch.colt.net (212.23.242.53) 1.309 ms 1.448 ms 1.541 ms
8 gi5-0.cr2.gva.ch.colt.net (212.23.227.29) 1.183 ms 1.399 ms 1.379 ms
9 pos7-0-cr2.NYC.router.colt.net (212.74.74.33) 100.737 ms 100.610 ms 100.547 ms
10 nyiix.bas1-m.nyc.yahoo.com (198.32.160.121) 100.850 ms 100.983 ms 100.943 ms
11 ge-3-0-0.pat1.nyc.yahoo.com (216.115.111.67) 101.070 ms 100.901 ms 100.980 ms
12 so-3-0-0.pat1.dcp.yahoo.com (216.115.101.157) 105.769 ms 105.756 ms 105.831 ms
13 ge-2-1-0-p170.msr2.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.29) 106.271 ms 106.118 ms ge-2-1-0-p160.msr1.re1.yahoo.com (216.115.108.25) 173.083 ms
14 ge-1-41.bas-a2.re3.yahoo.com (66.196.112.201) 106.105 ms ge-1-43.bas-a2.re3.yahoo.com (66.196.112.205) 106.388 ms ge-1-44.bas-a2.re3.yahoo.com (66.196.112.207) 106.378 ms
15 * * *
Kristen Allen | Apr 14 2008 at 6:54 am
See above. We can’t exactly contact support when the domain support is on is down.
Jarrod | Apr 14 2008 at 6:57 am
eta when you’ll be back online(?)
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maxim | Apr 16 2008 at 1:24 pm
Awesome. It seems Del.icio.us has great potential for education. It can help reveal very useful internet resources for students and teachers.
Guy | Apr 16 2008 at 5:15 pm
I am hooked - best bookmarking app out there.
Thanks Deli people.
Down Pillow | Apr 16 2008 at 7:01 pm
Great tips - I do lots of consumer demographic research and there are some good sites I did not know about!
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Josh A. | Apr 18 2008 at 6:43 am
@Hussey Perhaps you should stop spamming this blog, people could care less about your cheap money.
Jeffrey T. Guterman | Apr 20 2008 at 9:35 am
Great post! I use my own delicious links quite often in my teaching.
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Hamid Haqq | Apr 25 2008 at 6:19 pm
Muslim like Tags, but not when it becomes unruly, unGodly and uncontrollable. Every Muslim is and is prepared to be guided to that which is not harmful to their faith. I think the way Delicious does things guarantee the Muslim this. I recently read an article on the African Muslim Portal EsinIslam.Com that refer me to Delicious where I recovered my long-term lost articles about Az-Zakah the Islamic charity.
If Muslim scholars like the London based African academic sheikh Adelabu would allow his followers to use Delicious, I wholeheartedly believe Delicious is harmless to the Muslims for it does not compel searching for anything against the Islamic Faith and the True Teaching of Islam in accordance to the Quran and As-Sunnah
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