I haven’t posted much lately. We’ve lost several editors this semester and between recruiting (begging, shaming, whatever it takes) and training new staff, I haven’t had much time for anything extra. My news aggregator NewsGatoris full of posts from about 34 different sources and that is just a drop in the bucket compared to the more than 100 new media blogs in existence today.
I’m trying to read and bookmark as much as I can on del.icio.us and I’ll start posting some of the most interesting posts soon. In the meantime, feel free to check out my del.icio.us site, realizing that it’s not very organized at this point. You might want to look at the jclass section. I’m using those bookmarks to give an introduction to online journalism to our feature writing and college publications classes.
If you haven’t heard of del.icio.us, it is what’s called a social bookmarking site. It’s a huge favorites listing like what you might have in Internet Explorer, but with a twist. Instead of organizing your favorites in a folder, del.icio.us uses tags. So you can add as many tags as you want and find it again in several categories. And you can access it from any computer because it’s web based. I can go to the site from the classroom computer and all the web pages I want to show the class are right there.
Is anyone else using del.icio.us or something similar? How is it working for you?
