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‘Moving to Freedom’ Subscription and Social Bookmarking Notes

If you know all about RSS syndication and social bookmarking services like del.icio.us, this post is not for you. (Although you’re welcome to read it, if you’d like!)

This post is also not intended for someone looking for a complete and exhaustive introduction to syndication and social bookmarking. Instead, it is meant to be a gentle introduction and to get you started at least thinking about these useful services.

I’ve been meaning to write this for a while so I could link to it from the “Subscribe” area of the sidebar. My guess is that a lot of movingtofreedom.org visitors know these topics, so it hasn’t been a priority. But I found myself tinkering with the subscription …

just de-lovely, and del.icio.us

What is del.icio.us, and what’s so cool about it? The del.icio.us “about” page has a succinct explanation that makes sense to me now that I’ve read more about social bookmarking web sites, but as a starting place it did nothing to help me “get it” or understand why I would want to use it.

If you look around my site today, you’ll see that evidently I did decide to use it for promotional purposes. I have del.icio.us paraphernalia scattered all around the place: in the main page list of posts, the archives, search results, sidebar, and at the bottom of permalink pages. The question remains, though: why am I doing …