I've started a sort of advanced link blog at the site del.icio.us WebCites. It will become part of the whole community engine site as I develop that. A link blog is a blog with very short posts about pages of note on the web. For me, it serves as a sort of archive of significant resources.
To be honest, this would be a boring development except that I tied it through the del.icio.us social bookmarking system. Del.icio.us allows you to tag your bookmarks with categories and extended descriptions. The interesting thing about the category tags is that you can search on combinations of them to get narrowly defined subsets of your links. I know of no category system that allows you to do this.
I also think the social sharing is pretty neat. In particular, you can get your own or anyone else's links in a nice RSS 1.0 format. This allows you to republish your links while maintaining them in the central del.icio.us repository.
I opted to do this because I found myself doing a lot of micro-blogging on del.icio.us and negelecting my current blogs. In some sense, the del.icio.us WebCites page serves as an advertisement of what I am looking at and then also a front door to the more powerful del.icio.us back-end. As I have noted previously, the value is in the content you are producing. The trick is to make the content apparent.
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