Social bookmarking + RSS feeds = shared resources

[Claude Almansi]

Hi All

In the video sections, I've added 2 tutorials from the Commoncraft show: Social Bookmarking in Plain English and RSS in Plain English.

In the RSS tutorial, Lee Lefever only mentions 2 or 3 RSS readers, but actually, Ning social networking sites like this one also have RSS-reading capacity (1), and so have normal browsers like Firefox and Safari and - I think - the last version of Explorer (2).

And then, del.icio.us, the social bookmarking site he mentions in his tutorial also has RSS feeds for single "tags".

So we could use both social bookmarking at del.icio.us and RSS feed to create an automatically updated common list of translation resources here, but which we could also bookmark in our single browsers.

We could already do this by simply making a reader for the RSS feed of all the resources tagged "translation" by all del.icio.us users, listed in del.icio.us/tag/translation. Or we could also be a trifle more selective and use our own del.icio.us tag - for instance "translatorpower" which we would add to the resources about translation that we consider of particular interest for the members of this network.

What do you think?

Best

Claude

(1) As a demo, I have added a reader for the RSS feed of Linkedin Translation group in the main page, bottom right.
(2) Not sure, because I haven't used Explorer in 5 years.