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Last week Andy Laken asked me if there was a way to aggregate only select bookmarks from a group of users that would prevent an "unauthorized" user from posting a bookmark to the pool.  The aggregated bookmars would then be published ona  website.  After a little bit of thinking and some exploration while on the phone, we figured it out. Here is a quick and dirty recipe for creating a group bookmark feed from delicious.

1. Get everyone delicious accounts

When technologies vie for a segment of the academic market, they find themselves catering to the few that have the budgets to implement time-saving, innovative products into the classroom. However, many times, although the educational sector lacks the financial resources, it abounds with interest. In that case, they're lucky to find a company like Momindum that offers rich media based classroom tools for free.

Inspired by Funny Monkey and their "Wordlizing" of their Knight Drupal Initiative application I decided to have a quick play myself. I thought it would be interesting to see what words CivicActions frequently uses in our blogging, so a few days ago I took a quick export of all node text from our database, cleaned it up a little and started playing - see the attachments for the results. I think number 5 and 6 are my favorites, although I am quite partial to the arrangement in 3 too! read more

Windows/Linux: Free note-taking app Incollector is a pretty convenient and lightweight way to keep small bits of data close at hand, while also keeping everything organized and easily accessible....

Yesterday while waiting at the Cancun airport with Aaron, Henry, Mirasol, Nedjo, Owen and Justine, a few of us got to talking about FriendFeed, Twitter and del.icio.us. Aaron and I are avid del.icio.us users, tagging all sorts of interesting sites. And we follow numerous lists and feeds thus pulling together some great information and redistributing it through the company. read more

Web utility del.icio.us to Firefox merges your bookmarks from social bookmarking web site del.icio.us—tags and all—with your existing Firefox 3 bookmarks. Why might you want to do this?...

Stylish Java applet Wordle creates custom word clouds out of any text you throw at it. You can also have it parse your Del.icio.us tags for a cloud, but either way, the real fun is in customizing the...

One of the sessions I attended at the Enterprise 2.0 conference yesterday here in Boston was Thomas Vander Wal (the man who coined the term “folksonomy”) talking about how to manage the flood of information that social bookmarking and other forms of tagging can result in. Here’s his slides via slideshare:

Recently I've been looking into new web2.0 and, I guess web3.0, and social media trends - sites and services that are popping up like mushrooms after a rain. I've found many interesting one and wanted to share a few, and at the same time ask that if you know of anything really cool that you think I might not know about, please send it my way, either by email/contact form or tag them on del.icio.us for:gregoryheller read more

Webapp MyFolia organizes and tracks your garden's progress using all the current "Web 2.0" tools out there—tags, a wiki, Google maps, and social networking. Sign up for an account at MyFolia...

Now that you know how to stitch together panoramic photos with free software, publish your creations at Panoye, a panoramic sharing web site. Panoye users are building "a virtual tour all around...

Blogger Dennis Best, who previously schooled us about the value of built-in Getting Things Done apps, expands on his all-inside-the-Mac thinking by noting a simple way to organize every email...

Linux only: Tag and organize documents of nearly any kind and generate complete bibliographies with Referencer, a free utility for Linux systems. PDF files, office documents, saved web pages, and...