sample of how the del.icio.us widget would look like
Blogrolls are awesome for sidebars on your blog. You probably put your regular readings there, or your favorite pro-bloggers. But if you are someone who would like to share things you bookmark and you want them to appear more or less at real time without changing anything on your sidebar, you could check out the del.icio.us widget.

del.icio.us is an online social bookmarking service. It is probably one of the oldest bookmarking services. In any case, it’s easy to set it up if you don’t have one yet. Just go to del.icio.us, sign up for an account and make sure you get the del.icio.us bookmarklet for your web browser. Once you have started bookmarking and tagging URLs and blog entries, you are pretty much ready to use the del.icio.us widget.

If you are a WordPress.com user, it is one of the choices you have and you only need to drag it on to your sidebar using the admin panel. After that, you need to configure it so that you could say how many links will show up or from which particular tag/s you would like your displayed links will come from. Aside from that, you could also put a specific title for your set of links. If you want you could name it “[Your name]’s top 5 links” or maybe something like “Pick of the Week” (especially if you only bookmark using del.icio.us once a week). You could try to be creative with it and call it anything you like or whatever your blog’s theme is. It is after all, your widget on your blog. For all we know, you could call your links “yummy links” as a play on the word delicious!

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