del.icio.us and social bookmarking

Not in the know about del.icio.us? Never heard of social bookmarking? Well, here's the scoop from the site that by most reckoning started the whole phenomenon:

"del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add web pages you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only among your own browsers and machines, but also with others."

While social bookmarking is a useful way of keeping tracking of those internet waypoints that grabbed your attention, the true power rests more in the "social" side than in "bookmarking". By sharing your bookmarks with the public at large you're essentially casting a vote of popularity. By consuming other peoples social bookmarks (via RSS, HTML, on any other means) you leverage the authority of people instead of algorithms.

del.icio.us with jrb

For those with javascript-enabled browsers, the column on this page entitled "Last 10 bookmarked" displays the 10 most recent bookmarks I've hucked into del.icio.us, converted to HTML from an RSS feed. But if you're intested in seeing more than the last 10, browse them by folksonomy, or issue good olde fashioned search queries: