I did find the "video" to add the my.del.icio.us buttons a little insulting. They could have just said "add as a Link under Favourites and put on your toolbar". It wasn't rocket science.
However there are 2 of us at this branch doing the assignments, so my opposite will have to do this assignment on a different computer or the link will send her to my del.icio.us list. Obviously this site is not meant for shared workstations.
I looked in my Favourites and found "Daily dose imagery" which I had added when I was doing the first 23Things assigment. To my surprise, this blog had a del.icio.us button on its front page. I posted it and checked some similar sites. I found a nice also-Canadian photoblog called WatchThisSpace so I added that one.
I tried a search next and looked up "Doctor Who". I found an interesting Fanfiction Archive but noticed that the Canadian Fan Club wasn't in the list so I added DWIN.org. It's odd but the stats on my.del.icio.us page seemed to suggest that 5 or 6 people added the 2 Canadian sites almost as soon as I posted them with the tags. I suspect there must be an automatic tag alert option.
This is an interesting concept but again the use is limited as a reference tool. It has a little more "peer review" cachet than google hits but it is time consuming. I hadn't been aware of it so I might take more time -- when I have it-- to explore what is available.
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Good post and observations. I've actually had to assist some staff who tried to right click the links in the video (and were getting Zoom and Rewind options).
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