This is one in a series of posts for mastery of del.icio.us and assumes you have a working knowledge of the system. For a complete listing of all you can do with del.icio.us, read through the help documentation.

2. Add the feed to your feedreader!

When I was coming up with a list of topics for this week, I made a couple of assumptions about the readers:

  1. I'd be dealing with savvy internet users who were familiar with most of the terms I'd use
  2. The interested readers would be looking for how to add to their current del.icio.us experience, not to create it

It was with this in mind that I realized I'd spend most of five paragraphs just describing how to work with RSS feeds, and it's something I didn't want to do. I'm totally not down with Oprah, if you catch my drift. So when I start going off on RSS this, and feed that, don't come crying to me that I'm being too technical.

What you'll see on the del.icio.us homepage, on the bottom, is a line that reads, "RSS feed for this page." In fact, it says that on the bottom of a lot of pages. If you look in your bookmarks, there's an RSS button. There's one on your network, your inbox, the links for you, and the popular and recent pages. That RSS image is darn near everywhere.

I'm thinkin' you already know what you're posting, so why would they put all of those in there? Because that's how savvy internet users like you and me find out what other people are saving. And because it was fun to code it. Coding RSS is fun. Probably.

How you can make this work for you is like I've done with my network. If there's somebody I find interesting, who's links I find interesting, I add them to my network. That way, I'm putting them on my network page - the same one with the RSS feed. That way I'm only pulling down one list of interesting links, delivered strait into my RSS Feedreader of Legendâ„¢.

The same thing can be done with your inbox. Your inbox is where you can put the tags you're interested in following, and every time one shows up, it adds it to your page, and the feed. Don't worry, if you don't want to go through the trouble of setting up a subscription, there's a feed on the tag pages as well.

I rarely get sent links (bookmarks tagged with for:macstansbury), but there's a feed on that page as well. Can you see how this really takes the effort out of tracking things down? With the speed and efficiency you gain from this technique, you'll be linking like a viking in no time.

Read all the posts in the 5 ways to more deliciousness
1. Add a linklist to your blog!
2. Add the feed to your feedreader!
3. Add me to your network!
4. Add a license to your links!
5. Use it.

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lastmod: '2006-10-01T01:17:08.000Z'
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