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Ways to use del.icio.us:

del.icio.us is an open-ended system. You decide how you want to use it.

I think most bloggers and journalists have two primary uses for it:

• Store bookmarks for future reference/research
• Tag one’s own blog entries / articles, both to promote them to anyone monitoring those tags and to track the articles’ reach

I’ve done some of both, and I think the result is clumsy: my own blog posts appear in the same list with the rest of my bookmarks. Mingling these two disparate data types seems nonoptimal, as if Flickr wouldn’t distinguish between “my photos” and “my contacts’ photos.”

I spoke about this briefly with Jon Udell at Etech. He distinguishes the two data types by tagging his own articles with his name. It’s an easy solution for accessing “stuff I wrote” quickly, but doesn’t address what I think is the more interesting question: “show me my bookmarks but not the stuff I wrote.”

del.icio.us has a tag intersection feature to allow retrieval of bookmarks tagged with both of two terms, but it doesn’t currently have a negation feature. There’s no easy way to tell del.icio.us “give me everything tagged ‘foo and not bar’.”

Yes, I could write my own filter, sigh.