Delicious is a pretty interesting way to keep sets of links to articles, blogs, and recipes. I can see using it to get more information on hobbies or other recreational pursuits, for discovering sites you've never seen before.
Another interesting use of delicious mentioned in the tinyurl was the use of tags by a group. Everyone writes a post and then includes the same tag (alal2) on their post. That tag allows everyone to view each other's posts. This is easier than setting up a group on a site like Yahoo. With that, members of the group have to gain access to post on the group's sites by the moderator.
I did find serious fault with one of the Delicious marketing plugs. The site read, "Writing an article? ... Slaving away on your dissertation? Keep track of all the source materials and commentary that you find online." Now if you are just collecting sites for an article that you are going to write next Thursday, then bookmarking a list of sites does seem okay. But a dissertation? I hope that anyone who is writing a dissertation is aware that, in the time it takes to complete their work, online sources will change. Seems risky to save everything on delicious. Why not copy and paste into a disk file or a web-based email draft, or even a google doc (now that i know what one of those is and how it works) or save as an htm file? I did like the way that delicious allowed you to mark sites, highlight information, and make notes for later.
(I am adding this part later...) Now that I am more familiar with other sites that use tags, I'm slowly getting used to the concept. It's kind of like a basic cataloging system that is created by a community. I have come back and experimented with delicious a couple more times and some of the "popular" sites have really been a lot of fun.
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