Delicious - Thing 30

Berry Christmas!!
Originally uploaded by MR+G

I found this "delicious" photo on everystockphoto.com, which I discovered through Insuggest. Everystockphoto is a database of creative commons photographs. Take a look at it, there are many images to choose from. Insuggest was fun to look at too. The site recommends other bookmarks based on what you have already bookmarked. I discovered several new sites to add to my Delicious. It was also interesting to me to see a pattern of my interests.

As for Delicious, it is another of my favorite "things" from 23 Things. I use it everyday. I have added a Firefox add-on which adds Delicious buttons to my menu bar so I can quickly bookmark a site. I guess the feature of Delicious that I use most frequently is tagging. I love how I can easily organize my quickly growing list of bookmarks using tags.

I introduced my hubby, Steve, to Delicious and he loves it too.

I am interested in how others use Delicious. If you have any helpful hints, I'm all ears!

RSS Feeds - Thing 30

Another of the "things" I learned about during "23 Things" that I use every day is RSS feeds. I subscribe to quite a few that range from Web 2.0 stuff, recipes and geocaching, to name a few. I have also deleted some that, after a while, I found not to be of interest to me. I quickly got over the guilt of deleting unread RSS feeds. If I don't check my RSS for a couple of days, hundreds of feeds await my attention. Although I might miss some valuable information, I freely "mark all as read", if time does not permit perusing all of them.

In doing this "thing," I added a local weather feed via rssWeather and a favorite Craigslist search for currently listed Lake Superior agates via Feed My Search. FYI: My search term for the Craigslist search I cannot reveal due to the fact that I am sworn to secrecy by my husband!

I really like the Feed My Search app. I will probably add more favorite searches to my RSS feed reader using this tool.

P.S. Do you remember the Flickr mashups from 23 Things? I used the Spell with Flickr mashup for the image in this post.