Feeding my Delicious habit
| October 21st, 2008Today I saved my 5,000th link on Delicious. That means I’ve invested 13 hours and 45 minutes in Delicious, or thereabouts (I reckon using some fairly crude calculations on 10 seconds per save, allowing for some tag management and re-saves). I actually thought it would be more as this figure doesn’t seem that impressive, but then if I imagine sitting for 13 hours straight saving links it gets a bot bigger in my mind.
So. the big question is why bother? Well from a practical point of view, it helps me remember and find stuff I come across on the web. It’s as simple as that. It’s a big filing system that has traveled around with me from computer to computer and job to job. I actually feel naked without it, when browsing on someone else’s machine or mobile. I feed it relentlessly and I’m adamant that one day I’ll be able to extract even more use out of my bookmarks and everyone else’s bookmarks. For now though, I really do love Delicious and think it’s one of the best, most useful Web 2.0 apps that I use every day pretty much without fail.
Thoughts?
Oh and if you want to get some useful stuff, I’d personally subscribe to the feed for my stats tag. The cat stuff may geek you out a bit.
Oh, I can definitely not live without Delicious. It feeds my obsession to categorize and to never forget anything and to keep track of everything!
Definitely. I’ve saved another 60 links since I posted this. Eeeek.