As you can tell, I’m experimenting in different areas of the social web. I’m playing with blip.tv, an interesting media site that will host podcasts and vodcasts. I loved podcasting with Odeo, but now that they’re focused on Twitter, I felt it was time to move on. So, you’ll find me at blip, doing really short podcasts on new technologies or ideas about libraries and education. One of the things I love most about Blip is that they’ll push content to your blog. So, when you see the mp3 files over here, it’s not my (direct) doing. Blip has sent them here for me.
On that note, I’m using del.icio.us in much the same way. I have two del.icio.us bookmarking accounts. One is for library/tech/education purposes, and one is for things that are relevant to my personal life. I found that I wanted to share a lot of the library/tech/ed links here, but just don’t have the time to write up posts for everything I find these days. Luckily, del.icio.us offers a “daily blog posting” feature. (Log in, click on “settings,” and it’s on the right hand side of the page, under “blogging.”) It’s fabulous. it lets me write up a short description, much like what I’d post here anyway, and will send all the links I’ve bookmarked for the day here. One feature I found useful, though, is to allow private bookmarking (the “settings” page, again, under “bookmarks”). If I’m bookmarking a friend’s page, or something that I haven’t read yet, or something that may or may not be a good idea, I click on the “do not share” option, so it won’t end up here.
Between Blip and del.icio.us, I’m putting up content that I would want to put up anyway, but more efficiently and sustainably. And that is a really good thing.
John points out that it’s a good idea to set up different authors for the blog, like “delicious” and “blip,” with their own passwords, so that you’re not giving your passwords out freely on the internetz.
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