Some Del.icio.us Tricks
Submitted by karencoombs on Mon, 2007-02-26 03:29.
Below are a few tricks/tips I mentioned regarding del.icio.us that I mentioned to during my group chat this week.
- You can tag items for other people using the for:username tag
- You can bundle your tags together. Tags can be in multiple bundles
- You can make a feed of all of your del.icio.us items
- You can post your del.icio.us links to your blog on a daily basis
These are just a few of the features of del.icio.us If you want to know more tricks that you can do with Del.icio.us then check out Hacking Del.icio.us .
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These are great tricks, and
These are great tricks, and I'm looking forward to figuring out how to do more. I would really love to know if there's a way to make a feed or add a tag cloud of just a bundle, rather than all your delicious items. ?
You can publish all your
You can publish all your items or items with any one tag if you're using del.icio.us' built in tools. But as far as I know there's no way to make del.icio.us generate a feed of ORed tags rather than ANDed tags. If I'm wrong I'd really like to know, though, because that's one of my few complaints about the system.
I know how to use OR for
I know how to use OR for search in del.icio.us (see del.icio.us advanced searching tips), so I am presuming there is a way to do this for RSS feeds, too. Alternatively, just set up individual feeds and put them through a feed mixer--that way you can maybe get rid of duplicates and filter stuff you don't want out at the same time.
Oh, thanks for sending that
Oh, thanks for sending that link. Learn something new every hour! But I still don't know how to generate RSS from an ORed search. There's no little RSS link at the bottom of a search page, only at the bottom of a tag page (at least, as far as I can see). But you're right about the feed mixer idea. Now I just have to go figure out how to do that... :) Like the organizers said, you guys are leapfrogging the rest of us.
The only way I can think of
The only way I can think of to get a feed of ORed tags is through your subscriptions. That's pretty much what it does: you enter what tags you want to subscribe to, and it delivers all hits for any of the subscribed tags. You get a feed at the URL <http://del.icio.us/rss/subscriptions/USERNAME>.
The problem would come in when you want to have multiple fees to multiple searches. I can't think of how to do that without multiple del.icio.us accounts. But that wouldn't be so bad, since you wouldn't be using the accounts to tag bookmarks, you'd just be exploiting them for their subscription feeds.
Lastly, this conversation has taught me something about those subscriptions. I thought I was subscribed to "library+blog" (i.e., URLs tagged both "library" and "blog"), but when I compare my subscription page to <http://del.icio.us/tags/library+blog> I see I'm not really getting any of those. So I guess you can't subscribe to tag intersections.
An interesting side conversation for this class: what happens when we push these social tools so hard they break? del.icio.us has in mind the individual user who wants to interact with other individual users; the service isn't designed for librarians who want to create multiple feeds based on complex criteria. Is it important enough to create a librarian's feed tool? Or do you lose more than you gain when you withdraw from the big messy public spaces?