Yo Paul…

I’m busy sinking my teeth into delicious at the moment, and it seems pretty potent.

The way I’m starting to use it is….

1. An online repository of my bookmarks.

2. A taggable set of bookmarks. In the traditional bookmarking style or things, you have A folder that you put a bookmark into. And that’s where it lives. But say a bookmark lives in several catgories? You’d have to make that bookmark in several different folders. Here, you just add as many tags as you think are relevant.

3. A sharing tool. People can go to my delicious page and see what I’m bookmarking. http://del.icio.us/schmucknews.

4. More than that… I can tag things for the attention of people I know. So, for instance, if I find a story that you might want to read, I tag it as such. (I haven’t figured out what happens to the story that’s been tagged like that. But hey. All in the fullness of time.)

5. It’s a research and brainstorming tool. Thanks to the tagging system, you can cluster things for specific projects. When those projects end, you can just shift tags around or delete things.

6. It’s a communal tool. Some of the sites I’ve bookmarked have been bookmarked by other people. I can go and see what ELSE they’ve bookmarked.

7. I can see who is bookmarking MY pages.

I’m sure there’s more. And I suspect the flexibility is what makes it so potent.

I’m likening it to the revolution that gmail represents to email. Gmail is a paradigm shift. So is delicious. Very cool.

Blue skies
love
Roy