The Social Media MBA Blog by Karl Long

Hi all, I just updated the way my links are managed and all i can say is I fucking love delicious. In fact you could say it’s delicious. It’s funny actually, i’ve had a delicious account for a couple of years but have not really taken advantage of it, i’m very habit driven and it can sometimes take a while for me to adopt a new technology. I experiment a lot, but for me to totally commit to a change in behavior it can take a while.

Anyway, the reason I’ve raving about delicious is that all my sidebar links are automatically coming from delicious, and it’s even grabbing the favicon as well, which I think ads some visual interest.

I’ve actually changed my linking strategy a little bit, and i’ve got two kinds of links. I have top level links to blogs and podcasts that I read regularly (podroll and blogroll) and then I have topical links that likely link to articles of interest on specific topics. My blogroll and podroll are just tagged in delicious with those words, but the co-creation links and customer experience deep links to articles or posts and are tagged both with the topical tag (co-creation or customer_experience) and a “toread” tag.

Hopefully the result of this is instead of a mile long list of blogs going stale, the links on the right will link to things that are influencing my thinking and writing, and hopefully be a bit more valuable.

BTW the really nice piece of code that i’m using from delicious to produce those links can be found here Go here for the delicious help page on rolling your own link list

The one thing I need to figure out is how to add a generic favicon for those sites that are missing it, I can hack javascript a bit, but this is a little beyond my ken, anyone want to take a stab?

BTW if you don’t have a favicon you should reall get one, it’s really starting to matter a lot more as people consume your site in different ways.