Over the past couple of months I experimented with the daily direct feed of links that I added to del.icio.us that day. Around 10pm every evening there was a routine posting to my blog with the del.icio.us pages that I had tagged that day. The feed worked fine and (pure laziness) ensured that I made daily postings to this blog without lifting a finger. While its cools to consider how data can be easily repurposed and exchanged amongst your various web persona (I am leaving the Facebook feed in place) I am rethinking my strategy and have shut down this feed.
The tags are all still publicly accessible at my deli.icio.us page.
The preponderance of the link posts is clearly evident in the folksonomy cloud on my sidebar…the links weight is simply way too big. I will have to work on this.
I meant to comment when you changed the format (overall I think it’s attractive and very easy to navigate!), but this is good occasion, too. I love the folksonomy cloud and think it should move north, and from my perspective the flikr graphic (flash?) is neat but mostly distracting.
As for the links, you’re right (and you know the blog’s purpose best of anyone, after all) they probably aren’t the best way to accomplish what you are trying to do. It’s not that they’re too “random,” they’re just not as useful/interesting as those that come with commentary!
Josh