Tag Archives: delicious

Adding Notes to Cloud-Stored Bookmarks

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Joan Vinall-Cox

I like to save the URLs of sites or pages I might need in the future. Because I have had to change computers from work to home and because I’ve had computers crash and die, I like to keep my bookmarks in the cloud, that is, I like to use web applications to save my View Post

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Why I Use More than One Social Bookmarking Service

Posted on July 30, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Not that I’m paranoid (or maybe I am but I like to call it cautious skepticism) but I am always aware than any of the free web services that I use, or even ones I’ve paid for, could go belly up and my stuff on it (them) could vanish into a black hole. So when View Post

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Social Bookmarking – Diigo

Posted on June 18, 2009 by joanvinallcox

Social bookmarking is one of the most useful aspects of the web. You can use it to create your own online library, organized to your own interests by using tags. Although I’ve been using some form of social bookmarking for years, every so often I want to review what I can do with the social View Post

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Playing with Wordle and del.icio.us Tags

Posted on June 16, 2008 by joanvinallcox

I couldn’t resist playing with this toy, Wordle, that I found through Chris Sessums – Here is a Wordle tag cloud of my del.icio.us account.

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Personalizing Web Access

Posted on June 6, 2008 by joanvinallcox

Sometimes a bunch of experiences mash together and inspiration results. A couple of day ago I received a comment on one of my posts – #2 by Virginia Yonkers where she said “Try working on another’s computer! Just as we have idiosyncrasies in the speech, how we do math, writing (think of handwriting), we develop View Post

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Talking to Editors

Posted on May 27, 2008 by joanvinallcox

Image via Wikipedia Last night felt like summer in downtown Toronto. I was one of two speakers to the Editors Association of Canada in the beautiful Women’s Art Institute, and enjoyed giving my rather rushed presentation. (There’s a rigid deadline when the building must be cleared.) I always enjoy presenting, especially about how useful and View Post

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