In the session on Advanced Tools at Blogher, Alexandra Samuel, of Angus Reid Consultants, explains de.licio.us as a place to share your bookmarked links with other people. You can pull those links back onto your blog, creating a page that feeds itself. The key concept is that by moving your bookmarking content into a tagging system, you can grab the links and turn them into content for your blog.
The exciting thing about storing content with tags rather than bookmarks is that you can have more than one tag on an item. Then add the RSS feed for a de.licio.us tag to your own site, creating a page of links on your site. The resulting page of links will update automatically to include items that others have tagged with the same tag.
To add an RSS feed to your site you just copy and paste a snippet of aggregation code into your blog template. Or use a tool that will do this aggregation and republishing for you. You go to feedsdigest.com and copy an RSS feed there. It outputs a bit of Javascript or php or iframe code. You tell it to paste that code into your blog and how often you want it to update, and you're done.



1. Actually, it's easier than that. Veen posted a great tutorial on this here:
http://veen.com/jeff/delicious-tutorial.html
Skip to the end though, because Del.icio.us actually has an api to output HTML rather than rss segments. Read about it in the API here:
http://del.icio.us/doc/html
Posted at 10:26AM on Aug 5th 2005 by Kevin Hale