I've been using Del.icio.us as a tool for capturing interesting stuff I find on the Net and it's worked pretty well thus far. It is what drives the Link Dump section on this blog. However, over the last several months I have been using the Google Reader as my main means of collecting information on the Web. Google Reader has a tool that allows me to share the stuff I find immediately by clicking an icon. This ends up in my Shared Items Feed. Yes, Google has caught some flack for this feature, but I understand the potential implications of sharing anything online and I'm OK with it.
With Del.icio.us I need to click the link to visit the page, come up with a blurb that is 255 characters or less, and then come up with some tags to describe the page. Lots more work than just clicking an icon, but it give a lot more context for a page.
What I'm going to try for the next month is using both. I'll see which one I use more and then start using that one exclusively. While I'm doing this I'll have both feeds in a side bar.
With Del.icio.us I need to click the link to visit the page, come up with a blurb that is 255 characters or less, and then come up with some tags to describe the page. Lots more work than just clicking an icon, but it give a lot more context for a page.
What I'm going to try for the next month is using both. I'll see which one I use more and then start using that one exclusively. While I'm doing this I'll have both feeds in a side bar.
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