Delicious a great bookmarking solution

Just a brief post here to note what a big fan I continue to be of Delicious.com... As time has gone on, and I have continued to use increasingly more PCs and laptops throughout my workday and personal life, it's gotten harder to manage Web information. Plus posting quick answers to questions students have on various topics (where I and others can reference later) can be a challenge.

With my free delicious account (and you can use the service to find bookmarks of the public at large or those of users you know in particular without even signing up), I am able to house all my Web bookmarks/favorites all in one place. I can't get to it without an Internet connection -- but if I am without one of those, I probably don't need access to my Web bookmarks. Plus I can segregate the bookmarks by the ones I want to be private (only viewable if a person logs in as the user who created the private bookmark).

And one of the most interesting things for me has been the method by which Delicious has you store your bookmarks for retrieval, using keywords instead of the standard "folder/subfolder" filing system. I suppose I should be used to this -- I've seen the process used in different places, including this blogging system I'm using. But I've never really gotten used to its power until I try to commonly use it for retrieval... It takes some getting used to, but it's actually more flexible to be able to find a bookmark by remembering one of several possible keywords (categories) you used for it than to have to find the exact folder path to your bookmark.

Anyway, try Delicious out today and use it for 1 week with all your new bookmarks, especially if you work from multiple machines throughout your day. I think you'll like it. (Plus you can find my links and a HOST of other resources, many of which are filed under keywords "webdesign", "programming", and "graphicdesign", at www.delicious.com/lucianosole.)

On the Road,
Eric J. Reid