A personal "star" system is good for labeling your personal favorites, but not so good for finding what other people consider to be their favorites. For favorites-sharing, you need a standardized way of doing it.
-John On Oct 12, 2006, at 4:33 PM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote: > Britta wrote: >> I have a "star" system: >> >> http://del.icio.us/britta/%E2%98%85 >> >> When a website catches my interest to the point of obliterating >> everything else in the world while I read it, I give it a unicode- >> star >> tag. I bookmark lots of stuff - most of it is just interesting, and >> some of it is awesome. This helps me remember the awesome stuff. >> >> Some people use asterisk tags as a type of rating system: >> http://del.icio.us/tag/***, for example. > > I couldn't agree more with this. Use what's built in to the system > already. When I was new to Del, I thought it would be great to have a > separate author field. But you know, using a plain ol' tag like > "AuthorName" works just fine. (I suppose one could get fancier and > use > "author:AuthorName" or some other convention to distinguish between > pages by vs. pages about that person, if desired.) I modified the > script for my post button to automatically grab the author name(s) > from > the page (if supplied in the metadata) to use as a tag. > > > Tim > > -- > Tim Larson > West Corporation, Interactive TeleServices > Eschew obfuscation! > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ydn-delicious/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
