If you're a frequent web surfer like me, you'll inevitably come across the problem of where to save all the great links you come across. If you save them using your web browser's bookmarks, you'll soon find these bookmarks becoming cluttered and disorganised. And then if you're away from your computer you don't have access to them. There has to be a better way to organise your favourite links, right?
There is, and it's called social bookmarking. There are several sites sites (web applications) that offer this social bookmarking service. These social bookmarking sites allow you to save your favourite links and to organise them use tags. The reason they are social is because they are publicly available. This means you can access them when you're away from your computer, and so can your friends and colleagues.
You will notice in there is a block in the right hand side of this blog titled "my delicious links". This contains tags of sites that I've favourited using the Delicious social bookmarking service. You can also check out my bookmarks by going here. I'm encouraging all my students to use social bookmarking as a way of keeping track of useful and interesting sites they have visited. To find out more about social bookmarking and how to get started with Delicious, watch this excellent video from Common Craft first:
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