What flavours of Deliciousness do people like?

[fearmeforiampink]

So, I've been doing the bookmarking through Delicious for approaching a month and a half now. I'm definitely liking it, a click to bring up the window, a few more for tags, and then either write a description, or have selected text from the page to give it its description. Easy for me, and thus has resulted in a lot more linksharing than my previous intermittent efforts.

I'm now pondering doing it on Google+, possibly through a similar mechanism to what I'm using for LJ, through some crossposter, or whatever. But I figure that before I do so, it's worth taking stock.

Sure, the linkspam is partly for myself, to keep track of these things, spread things I think deserve to be seen, etc. But it's also a way of going "Hey! Look, this stuff is cool!" to my friends who read this LJ. And there's been some response to individual things I've linked in the comments, so at least some of it is piquing peoples' interests.

Thus it seems worth me asking what people like, if there's stuff they want me to link more, whatever other comments people have. No guarentees I'll actually follow any suggestions, but I'm definitely curious to find out what people think of my recent linkspammery.

In other news, waiting to find out if I have a fractured ankle. Weirdly, somewhat hoping I do, as that would at least explain what's wrong with it (the sprain having pretty much gone down now), and would make sense with the particular pains I've been having. If it's not that, there'll be more searching to work out what the hell it is.

Comments

[nuclear-duchess.livejournal.com]

I like your linkspams! I usually click on at least a couple, then get too involved with reading/gawking to comment on here to thank you! Keep 'em coming!

[drachemaedchen.livejournal.com]

I like 'em too...and I usually click on at least a couple in each post. Find me on google+! (danielle withrow)

Good luck with your ankle!

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

I like the interesting links rather than news items.

Hope the GP comes up with the goods tomorrow.

[ladybirdintheuk.livejournal.com]

I like the linky things :)

And good luck on the ankle thing. It always feels weird hoping that a specific terrible thing is the problem, but a terrible thing that is fixable is far preferable than uncertainty and the potential of even worse things.

[chess]

I like the linkspam, there are a whole load of interesting things that I don't have time to keep up with and the edited highlights are great. I don't click on every link but I expect different ones appeal to different people.

[andrewducker]

I also like it!

And link what you find interesting, not what you think other people want to read. That way lies doooooom.

[fearmeforiampink]

Aye. This is always going to be mostly about what I find interesting.

But on the other hand, there's always going to be stuff that I don't link to, 'cause whilst I find it interesting, it's a particularly narrow thing, or there's a very specific reason I find it interesting. If I want to keep the bookmark, then I'll either add it to my browser bookmarks, or add it as a private one on delicious. But a lot of it, one reading is enough, so if there's not a reason to share it, then it doesn't get saved.

So, it's useful for me to know what, within the area of stuff I find interesting, other people find interesting.

Re:

[andrewducker]

It's the niche stuff that I'm most likely to find interesting. If it's general stuff then I can get it anywhere :->

[fearmeforiampink]

The narrowness I'm thinking of is stuff like "Jack-Of-All-Trades: Fax Celestis' Guide to Spellthieves" and the "Writer's Quotes" of the people who work on the Exalted RPG. And other stuff that's interesting if you share one particular, exact hobby, but not outside it.

To use D&D as an example, I'd post a general discussion of gaming, a discussion of D&D stuff relating to real life, or a discussion that seemed like it'd be interesting to non-D&Ders, but not something that assumed a given level of knowledge, and was not interesting without that.

[mistress-helly.livejournal.com]

I love the linkspam, I read them at work when i'm pretending to be doing my job!

Moar please ^.^

[omniscient-fool.livejournal.com]

I like the links, and you always post descriptions so it's easy enough for us to filter. Don't try to pander to us though, reading people's linkspam is a nice way of seeing what they're interested in at a particular moment, and you don't want it to become a chore for yourself either.

Hope your ankle is OK... If you end up housebound and bored I can pop up and hassle you some time!

[fearmeforiampink]

Aye. It's less pandering I'm intending to do more, I dunno, being that little bit more likely to link something when I know it's in an area people find particularly interesting. Like the link on how many senses humans have (rather more than five!) I just added, and the comment above about liking the non-news/current affairs stuff that's just generally interesting.

There's always going to be a bar/cut off point so that I'm not linking thirty or fifty things a day. How interesting I find it is the major factor, but how interesting/how unaware of it other people may be is part of it too.

[invisible-al.livejournal.com]

I approve your linkspam and post what you find interesting. I'll try and remember to comment if I read and find them interesting :).