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I get the feeling that I should really be titling this post “The Trials and Tribulations of Automating My Linkdumps”.  But now that I’ve set the tone…

For those unfamiliar with Del.icio.us¹, it’s a social bookmarking app (and a Yahoo! property) that allows you to keep your bookmarks all online, in one place, and “tagged” for easy categorization.  Add in the description field on top of that and you have a pretty neat utility.  While I don’t use Del.icio.us’ social component all that much², I do use the tagging quite a bit.  And when I discovered that you could set it up to automatically dump (nee ”post”) your links from the day onto your blog…  Well, I was sold.

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1. Now “Delicious.com” but you’ll always be “Del.icio.us” to me.[↩]
2. I’ve shared a few bookmarks and had more than a few shared “to” me; but the “social” aspect is definitely in the background for me. Especially since, in all honesty, isn’t Google’s “relevance” and Quality Score business just another social index anyway?[↩]

Early Saturday a.m. post…  Trimming down the links in the sidebar; feels too much like clutter.  Instead, thinking of just dumping links into del.icio.us and then install one of the myriad plug-ins for WordPress to add support for them.  *shrug*  A. has released my inner-chucker - - especially considering the up-coming move.

ALSO: Realized last night that after years of avoiding it, I’m going to need to break down and read T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”.

LASTLY: Is Bruce Sterling the Ezra Pound to William Gibson’s T.S. Eliot?