Network Them Bookmarks!

I've been using Delicious for a while now, but not it's 'social' functions.

(To add me to your Delicious network: cheefinspector)

I started using it a few years back, whe I was a substitute teacher.
I would be in a different classroom everyday.  I never had my favorites with me, and was frequently encountering cool new resources that I wanted to add.  I used Delicious as a portable (and essentially private) favorites list.  It was way more awesome than writing things on post-its and scraps of paper, to be keyed in later when I got home.

Over time, I've added a small handful of people to my delicious network, but rarely if ever go check their tagged content.  I mostly just keep adding to my list from my own surfing.

But now I'm thinking: Perhaps rather than hunt for answers via search engines, I should explore the possibility of growing and establishing my delicious network.  I see some immediate, obvious advantages:

1. There will be no paid placements / skewed rankings.
   
   
2. Some one - likely someone I know personally - will have thought enough of the resource to tag it.  This effectively lets other people act as pre-screeners for any content I may want to explore.
   
   
3. I will get to know the tagging protocols of the people in my network.  I will likely change and modify the way I tag to take best advantage of the shared information, rather than continue to impose my own (private) taxonomy on the entire content of the web.

I'll need to explore this possibility, and post my findings.