For the past month or so, I’ve been having del.icio.us automatically post my day’s links to the blog. I’ve now switched that off. Ultimately, I feel there’s so much good stuff out there that it was arguably wasting readers’ time. Finding cool links is not hard; keeping up with them is. When such posts come up from other blogs in my RSS reader, I just flick past them: so why was I inflicting that on other people?
Also, since I didn’t want everything I bookmarked to appear on the site, I’d taken to using blue dot (which is really cool, btw) for my stuff and del.icio.us for the links on the site. And that’s just silly.
I don’t have a quarrel with other bloggers who do like using or reading the automated links posts. Just not my cup of tea, I’ve decided.
What I’ll try to do instead is a round-up every few days or so of some of the articles I really liked but didn’t write about.
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Stuart Bruce
3 years ago
Very sensible. I started to set del-icio.us up to post my links, but then stopped as it dawned on me I very seldom followed other people’s lists and I also had lots of stuff I did really want or need to share.
Ian Delaney
3 years ago
It was also a little bit of a crutch for days when I was feeling uninspired but guilty about not having posted.
I am getting over the guilt now :)
Simon Wakeman
3 years ago
I did the same recently.
I kept automatically publishing links that were usefulto me, but of little relevance to a marketing and PR audience. I had to keep manually deleting the automatic posts.
I figured I wouldn’t blog those topics so the links weren’t valuable content for my audience.
Ian Delaney
3 years ago
That’s a great point, Simon.
This blog (and yours, and Stuart’s, and others I respect) is a publication of sorts. It says “web 2.0, blogs and social media” at the top of the page, not “interesting stuff I found while I was surfing”.
Paddy Byers
3 years ago
Personally, I quite liked them :)
It saved me reading 100 other blogs knowing you’d pick out the bits that are diverting but not worthy of analysis.
But don’t feel all guilty again :)
Ian Delaney
3 years ago
You bastard, Paddy. Am I your lab monkey, now? ;)
Go to http://del.icio.us/iandelaney or iand on blue dot, which I do really like. Still choosing.
Simon Collister
3 years ago
Hooray! A victory of common sense over technology.
I was startuing to get infuriated over link posts and I told Antony Mayfield so when he tried it.
I struggle to keep up with my 85 RSS feeds. To then have my reading multplied by more links was driving me potty.
Rant over. Thanks.
Ian Delaney
3 years ago
I must say you were all very polite, not saying anything.
Please feel free to not be in future!
Bob Boydston
3 years ago
OK, I will say something!
I have done something of the same thing on my site. I don’t actually create a feed from that site called “tasty” but I have done ad libs on various issues and then have the reader click on the article to read more…somewhat like eWeek.
It’s never been popular and aside from some of my quirky remarks it was never really informative as well. I think what people want it fresh content. It’s definitely harder to do on a daily basis, especially, when you are the only content giver, but, it’s the only thing that people want…aside from some camaraderie that this group has definitely displayed! :)
By the way, that is a compliment!
Ian Delaney
3 years ago
“I think what people want is fresh content”.
Bah. I was afraid of that! ;)
Brennan
3 years ago
Anyone have any tips on how to best use del.icio.us to help promote one's websites? I have recently signed up, added a few friends, and am trying to
add interesting, useful sites before I add my own (which I'll do when I'm finished with my first set of tutorials). My sense is that it may be wise to
make some of the more “popular” del.icio.us members my friends, but for now I've stuck solely to people who are related to my industry. What do other
people think? Any good tips out there?
All the best,