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Comment on Using ifttt For Productivity And More by garygre

garygre — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:04:35 +0000

Hi Kelly
If you create a Google spreadsheet and publish it as an atom feed, you can send that feed to either the gmail or email channels. You can only send the feed to a single email account per feed though.
Gary

Comment on Using ifttt For Productivity And More by Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:23:58 +0000

I know this post is way old, but I’m searching for a way to pull info from a spreadsheet to create emails. Have you found a way to do this with IFTTT?

Comment on Library Camp London #LibCampLdn by Summary – Librarians and Personality – Feb 2013 | #uklibchat

Summary – Librarians and Personality – Feb 2013 | #uklibchat — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:44:33 +0000

[...] @ggnewed’s blog post on #libcampldn, including discussion of the Librarians and Personality se… [...]

Comment on #uklibchat: Innovative use of Technology in Libraries by Kaisa Tuimala

Kaisa Tuimala — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 06:42:16 +0000

That one for sure will be very interesting.In Finland there are many of IT that going to a conference which they believe that they will learn different kinds of things,In Helsinki there are some IT companies that focusing on telecommunications believing also on conference that you will learn a lot of things.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by garygre

garygre — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:00:05 +0000

It’s almost as if they wanted a clear run at whatever they’ve got planned. I’m not sure that I’m interested in using whatever they’ve got planned to be honest, as it could just as easily go the way of stacks, with just as little warning or thought about how it will affect their users.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by garygre

garygre — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:55:43 +0000

Yes, any links you saved previously just with tags and then put into stacks are still there, but if (like me) you saved links directly to a stack they have now disappeared into bookmark heaven without a trace.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by MrS

MrS — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:43:30 +0000

Dismayed at the handling of Delicious stacks – isn’t this what staging servers are for? Why remove the live service without a) much warning or b) a clear indication of what bigger and better thing is coming (e.g. a Beta area).

Scoop.it looks very nice though, think I’ll try it out too.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by christie

christie — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:31:40 +0000

They seem to be organized with multiple links contained under tags which were previously the names of my stacks I also tried the bundle feature… bummer though

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by christie

christie — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:19:21 +0000

I am so disappointed! I spent months sorting through the most pertinent information from my various tags and organized them into stacks! Is there no way to access the information contained in them ever again? Many thanks

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by garygre

garygre — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:47:12 +0000

Thanks for all your responses to my post about the removal of stacks from delicious.com. It looks like I wasn’t the only one who was caught up by delicious.com persuading us to use a really useful add on to the service.

As a follow up to this post… after the removal of stacks, I found that any links I’d saved directly to a stack had been deleted and delicious.com are unable to retrieve them, as they hadn’t actually been saved to my account, just to the stack. So, I’ve lost a lot of useful links that I thought were so useful I’d save them to a stack for use in a particular presentation/event. Unfortunately my backup system that saved my delicious.com links to Pinboard wasn’t picking up those links either. If only I’d known that these links weren’t being saved as a normal link as well, I would have made an extra effort to ensure they were being saved.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by Penny

Penny — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:15:01 +0000

The discussion of the removal of Stacks in Delicious had me in a panic, because I’ve use the urls to my Delicious stacks as resource materials in all different courses, and recreating those resource links in another platform would have been time consuming. But it turns out that now, when I use the “add tag filter” I can save the url of the filtered link just as I would have saved the stacks. For instance, if I want to use a url for only job resources, then I filter for “jobs” and that tag name is added to the end of the delicious url as “/jobs” . Yeah! I’m still getting used to this, but in ways it may even be a more streamlined process than using the stacks.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by Archival Strategies

Archival Strategies — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 05:05:23 +0000

Gary, thanks for the blog post – you spoke for many. Delicious encouraged its users to create stacks, even rewarding them with Staff Picks. Many users took hours to hand craft their stacks for visual and logical perfection. All that effort now appears lost. If Delicious has an alternative, why not implement it at the same time as the removal of stacks, and allow seamless migration? Delicious has not been transparent with its community. I have lost faith, and am now evaluating taking my business to other bookmarking/curating tools, for example http://www.scoop.it/. I too, really miss stacks.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by Magnet Mailers

Magnet Mailers — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:21:37 +0000

After re-inventing itself yet again, Delicious is on course to be another case study for the b-schools. Ignore your users, re-write your mission and simplify your product into oblivion. Delicious is taking the sad path of Excite, GoTo and dozens others that have come and gone.

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by theuniversallanguageofmusic

theuniversallanguageofmusic — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:43:24 +0000

greetings gary, i too am very dismayed by the sudden removal of our stacks. as an educator in music, specifically piano performance, i regularly shared my stacks with students wanting to learn more about a specific composer or piece of music, and the stacks allowed a really cool visual way of enticing the students interests. additionally, i have sent out links to students and used links on other blogs and like you in presentations. after reading your article i now understand why one of my stacks on a Bartok piece disappeared as i did not put certain tags onto it. :-/ i just spent the whole morning deleting the delicious tags and links of my other blogs, email signatures, bio’s and website. i had several featured stacks which i was quite proud of as well, in addition to being able to check out other educators stacks, such as yourself which i often found quite useful (sigh) if you know of another site which has a similiar visual way of presenting educational material please keep me informed, many thanks. i will follow your blog here, to hopefully stay abreast of any new developments with delicious.com, in the meantime, i now need to find another site with a similiar feature as i too have classes i am going to be teaching in the next few weeks and planned to use the stacks in several presentations.
respectfully,
jamila

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by garygre

garygre — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:21:13 +0000

I wonder if they’d drawn people’s attentions to their plans sooner and given more people the opportunity to feedback on it they might have changed their minds and kept stacks?

Comment on Arts Council England Live Chat (25 July 2012) by garygre

garygre — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:17:32 +0000

Hopefully the discussions ACE are having with library sector representatives around their upcoming organisation review/restructure will help change their perspective. http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/who-we-are/transparency/human-resources/organisation-review/

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by Thing 5 – Tags, Social Bookmarks and Wordles | Leigh 2.0

Thing 5 – Tags, Social Bookmarks and Wordles | Leigh 2.0 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:48:16 +0000

[...] would be particularly useful for me. Just as I created my first stack, however, I discovered plans to remove the stack facility in the coming months! As ever, this is a technology that I’ll have to keep up [...]

Comment on Stacks Are Being Removed From Delicious.com by Joe Grainger

Joe Grainger — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:36:04 +0000

I’m gutted too to hear stacks are going, I’ve found it useful feature for organising bookmarks into categories.

As long as the new tag feature they’re bringing in to replace it works just as well I will be happy, but it just seems so silly to be changing/removing something that works just fine. We’ll have to wait and see.

Comment on Arts Council England Live Chat (25 July 2012) by Martin Cove

Martin Cove — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:55:23 +0000

Economic impacts always seem to be ignored or barely mentioned yet libraries (especially public) assist people to change and find jobs and set up businesses everyday.

Comment on Arts Council England Live Chat (25 July 2012) by garygre

garygre — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:40:20 +0000

As far as I can see there wasn’t any information at all about ACE restructure.