Nudge nudge, link link
I’ve added a Links section below. It’s a selected list of some of the online resources I used when I was researching Who’s on the Money? and Stuck on History (and some of the resources I’m using now for my new project).
It’s powered by Delicious (or del.icio.us, if you prefer). Here’s what I wrote about Delicious in the Summer 2008 edition of FYI, the journal of the School Library Association of Victoria:
Most internet browsers have a bookmarking feature to help you keep track of the websites you visit. Browser-based bookmarking has two drawbacks: it’s specific to one computer and it encourages you to file your bookmarks in folders.
Say I have separate bookmark folders for Who’s on the Money? and Stuck on History. The Australian War Memorial website is a useful resource for both projects. I might also want to bookmark the site in a
Warfolder for future reference. This means I have to copy and paste the link into three folders — and if the web address changes in the future, I have to correct it three times.Enter Delicious. Instead of organising your bookmarks into folders, Delicious lumps all your bookmarks together and encourages you to ‘tag’ your files according to your own, personalised taxonomy. So, my bookmark for the Australian War Memorial official histories page has the tags
project:stuckonhistory,project:whosonthemoney,topic:worldwar1,topic:worldwar2andhistory:australia.Instead of multiple instances of the same bookmark living in multiple folders, multiple tags are assigned to a single bookmark.
You can subscribe to my Australian history linkroll RSS feed, and if you happen to be a Delicious user already, feel free to include me in your network!