Delicious bookmarks (readings) manager
This isn't a comprehensive introduction to del.icio.us, but is targeted for our course. For more specifics, try this instead.
Since most of the readings are online, I use del.icio.us for course readings lists. Del.icio.us is a bookmarks manager which provides network storage of bookmarks (handy if you use more than one computer). Bookmarks can be “tagged” with any number of one-word tags. You can easily find new sites by looking at site-wide lists of tags or by searching the site. You can search
For our purposes, I've tagged all of my bookmarks which I think are useful for Computers & Writing, including required readings, with the 480 tag. I've tagged all required readings following the concepts which are the focus of the course.
By clicking on any one tag in my del.icio.us, you can see all of the links I have which relate to any of the concepts we're working with this semester—both assigned readings and other online content. For example, clicking design shows all the links I've tagged with “design.”
You can take this one step further: click the “design from all users” link to see what other folks have tagged with “design”—including links to their other links.
If you don't mind a little typing, you can see which items are tagged with multiple links. (That's
how I narrowed down the reading list for the course.) For example, type in the url http://del.icio.us/dilger/web+design to see
at items I've tagged with "web" and "design." Or try http://del.icio.us/tag/web+design to see the
same results for all del.icio.us users.
Of course, if you make your own del.icio.us account, you can do all of this yourself!