del.icio.us Categories
For those who are not internet savvy, no, I did not spell the word delicious wrong. del.icio.us is an extremely popular social bookmarking website. Like other social-networking trends that are popular among teenagers (like myspace.com), I just didn’t care about it at all. However I found an awesome blogging trick that allows me to organize my posts by categories (also known as tags). Since I use Firefox and I already installed an extension called Greasemonkey, all I needed was the third ingredient of a del.icio.us account to add categories to my blog.
What’s great about categories/tags is that it allows you to easily find related posts that may interest you but which aren’t listed anymore because they’re older. At the bottom of this post you’ll see that I added the category tags of “blogging”, “Internet”, and “Webmaster” to this post. Clicking on any of these links will send you to a page which lists every other related post with similar category tags. Plus you’ll now see a cool category list in the right sidebar of my blog.
Wow I blog about Maegan a lot.
P.S. I find it interesting that del.icio.us is actually the domain name of “icio dot U-S” (like this domain name is “mikesussman dot com”). Then they simply made a prefix directory called “del” (like you often add the usually unnecessary prefix of “www” to other websites). It’s amazing that this creative mistreatment of the domain naming system ever caught on. Although it seems that enough people didn’t “get it” because they needed to also buy the more traditional website address of delicious.com which forwards you to del.icio.us.
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