Teach42

Another ‘cast hits the airwaves! I’ve changed the format slightly. For this podcast, I’m focusing in on a single piece of social software, del.icio.us. For the next few podcasts, I’m going to try to key in on a single site or piece of software and really go into it in depth. You know, provide some tips and tricks as well as give the educational spin on it. Let me know what you like it or if you think I should go back to covering more topics in a shorter amount of time with less depth. I’d love to hear what people think. Anyway, enjoy!

Directly link for all you old fashioned folks!

Show Notes:

Keith Chapman: The background music for today’s ‘cast. “A funk jazz instrumental using all electric bass guitar and a complex drum track.”
del.icio.us: A social bookmarking tool.
Foxylicious: A Firefox extension that integrates your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser.
Extisp.icio.us: A visual representation of the tags in your del.icio.us account. Check out mine as an example!
Backing up Del.icio.us: A quick howto for backing up del.icio.us. Way more information than you probably need. Basically if you go to http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all it will ask for your name and password, and then spit out an XML file with all your bookmarks.
Cocoalicious: An OSX desktop app for adding to and organizing your del.icio.us account.
Nutri.itio.us: In my mind, the best way to post to del.icio.us. It supplies you with a new bookmarklet that allows you to see how other people tagged the same site, and shows you which tags you already have in common with popular ones. I use this all the time.
Pasta: A quick way to take any text, create a web page out of it and bookmark it in del.icio.us. A great way to make notes of snippets of code, or other things you don’t want to forget about and want access to from multiple computers.
Add del.icio.us to your blog: Haven’t tried this one yet, but it’s a way to add your del.icio.us bookmarks to your sidebar. You’ll probably see it here soon!
We Taste: A WYSIWYG version of pasta. This one is new to me. Seems to work pretty well, but needs a Firefox bookmarklet for me to make more use of it.

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