ha, okay, I just mis-read 'Pinterest' as 'Pinboard' and srsly took a few minutes to be SO CONFUSED. And then I figured it out and it made SO MUCH MORE SENSE.
Basically, delicious is like pinboard if you were supposed to put text-based conentent on more than one board. That's a gross simplification of how the tag thing works, but it's the whole idea that you can put a single item in more than one folder AT THE SAME TIME. And then you can find things based on how which COMBINATION of folders they are in. *insert MIND=BLOWN here* And folders is a really terrible analogy, I'm sorry. Also sorry if you already knew that and I'm that dick explaining things you already know.
I was explaining it to katieupsidedown the other *TIME PERIOD* that delicious-usefulness depends on a) how much you re-read b) how ocd you are and c) how computer-nerdy/librarian nerdy you are.
If you don't do a lot of re-reading, there's no reason to bookmark. If you don't have ocd organization issues and don't want to ARCHIVE ALL THE THINGS, you don't need to bookmark obsessively, which sort of addresses b and c.
I used it pretty obsessively to find new things to read, with spurts of bookmarking and then not for months. I had a great set of tag subscriptions set up, so that any bookmark tagged, say, 'sga' ended up on my feed, so I got this great mix of stuff delivered to my doorstep. And I had a nice network set up that I could trawl for regs if my subscriptions weren't doing it, and also for other random things to read that might be of interest.
*PINTEREST FRANDS* ngl, I keep messing up between pinboard and pinterest. /o\ I really want to love pinterest, but the god/creepy parent/misogynist contingent kind of make me crazy. The answer it so follow enough people that I never have to touch the 'everything' feed (and the fact that it's now a drop-down for different things should help). I would be super-into more friend-types using it because I know the collective we has other interests besides fandom that are relevant to mine! Share with me fandom!
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ha, okay, I just mis-read 'Pinterest' as 'Pinboard' and srsly took a few minutes to be SO CONFUSED. And then I figured it out and it made SO MUCH MORE SENSE.
Basically, delicious is like pinboard if you were supposed to put text-based conentent on more than one board. That's a gross simplification of how the tag thing works, but it's the whole idea that you can put a single item in more than one folder AT THE SAME TIME. And then you can find things based on how which COMBINATION of folders they are in. *insert MIND=BLOWN here* And folders is a really terrible analogy, I'm sorry. Also sorry if you already knew that and I'm that dick explaining things you already know.
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If you don't do a lot of re-reading, there's no reason to bookmark.
If you don't have ocd organization issues and don't want to ARCHIVE ALL THE THINGS, you don't need to bookmark obsessively, which sort of addresses b and c.
I used it pretty obsessively to find new things to read, with spurts of bookmarking and then not for months. I had a great set of tag subscriptions set up, so that any bookmark tagged, say, 'sga' ended up on my feed, so I got this great mix of stuff delivered to my doorstep. And I had a nice network set up that I could trawl for regs if my subscriptions weren't doing it, and also for other random things to read that might be of interest.
*PINTEREST FRANDS* ngl, I keep messing up between pinboard and pinterest. /o\ I really want to love pinterest, but the god/creepy parent/misogynist contingent kind of make me crazy. The answer it so follow enough people that I never have to touch the 'everything' feed (and the fact that it's now a drop-down for different things should help). I would be super-into more friend-types using it because I know the collective we has other interests besides fandom that are relevant to mine! Share with me fandom!
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