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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 …

StarTribune isn’t del.icio.us

I mentioned in a previous post that seeing the “Save to del.icio.us” link on the Minneapolis StarTribune web site was one of the things that nudged me in to paying more attention to del.icio.us.

In addition to promoting their articles, I think the Strib would like to be new and trendy. Hey, kids! Look! We’re in to del.icio.us also. Save our articles to del.icio.us and share with all your friends!

(Probably the same motivation that has me doing the same thing on this site.)

So that’s what I did. I bookmarked a review of Snakes on a Plane. (I had my reasons.) And then recently I clicked on the …

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 …