08.08.05
The joy of randomness
If you’d told me that browsing del.icio.us daily would be a useful addition to my browsing habits, I’d probably have argued that it’d all be random fluff. But darnit if I don’t find several useful or fun links every day in just a quick scan. Huh.
Steven’s weblog » Blog Archive » The joy of del.icio.us said,
September 13, 2006 at 12:55 pm
[...] By popular demand, and yeah, ‘popular demand’ can indeed mean ‘a single request’ if the population from which the request(s) came is only about three people anyway, I’ll add a bit more to my previous post about using del.icio.us as a browsing tool. And that bit is, that even if you don’t have an account or contribute links yourself, they offer different ways (more than I knew about, actually, until I just looked, because they’ve added some new tools) to see what’s hot with other users. All I do, usually, is use the recent additions (del.icio.us/recent). As you might notice from the link, I set the minimum number of linkers to 1 in order to get everything, because I personally find it most interesting to see what’s not popular (yet) but is still link-worthy. [...]