For those who don't know, I'm a bit of an information junkie; for example, I'm currently subscribed to roughly 650 RSS feeds in Google Reader, 75 or so podcasts through iTunes, and a little under 200 photography streams at Flickr (which I keep up on through the truly excellent desktop stream visualizer 1001). For the last several years, then, at off and on moments in my life when I've felt like it, I've ended up sharing with the public the most interesting of this information I'm coming across these days; think of it as the same stuff I usually share here through CCLaP's "Obsession of the moment" series, plus occasional hard news and the like. I happen to share my recommendations through group bookmarking service del.icio.us, now owned by Yahoo (but not when I first started using them); basically they make it very easy to maintain your bookmarks at their online website, so that you can access them from any computer you happen to be at, plus provide extremely easy options for checking the most popular bookmarks among all users, searching on a specific subject, sharing your bookmark list with others, etc.

Anyway, I find myself updating the ol' "linkroll" there pretty regularly these days, so thought I'd take advantage of another tool del.icio.us provides, a piece of Javascript code that lets you repost your bookmarks at another blog, say your personal or professional one. That's it you're seeing on the left there, if you happen to be reading this at the actual CCLaP website, in the sidebar down near the bottom; it basically refreshes every time this page is loaded in a browser, and shows the latest ten items I'm tracking over at my del.icio.us account. Of course, if you're an RSS junkie like me, never fear; the CCLaP linkroll has its own feed as well, which you can just subscribe to and then forget about it; it also has its own webpage, if you want to search the entire list or see how many others are bookmarking the same items, and of course fellow del.icio.us users can add me to their network by clicking here.

I hope that some of you will get a kick out of this; I get asked on a regular basis, in fact, if I would recommend more artists and interesting creative projects that I come across, which is what made me ultimately decide to add the linkroll here via Javascript in the first place. As always, your opinion is welcome via comment at this site or email at cclapcenter [at] gmail.com.