Obviously, many will disagree with my view as auto-posting is quite widespread within the blogosphere. In any case, whenever I come across a link post in my RSS reader, 99% of the time I’ll just skip over it. Blog posts are meant to spur discussions and create conversations. A list of links isn’t very interesting or engaging. Instead of a blog post, a quick Tweet may be a better way to share links and generate reader engagement.—Del.icio.us Link Posts

The answer is pretty simple: I don’t have time to blog about all the great stuff I find and I want to share it with you.

Let me explain how I use Diigo and that should help here.

There are two levels of bookmarks I set here.  One level are the ones that I share to the Maple Leaf 2.0 group, those are published as an RSS feed on the sidebar.

The next level is those I want to publish in the link blog.

Both groups I want to share with you.  Maybe it’s a great thought-provoking post, or a friend, or just interesting.  The ones that I post daily as a post, are ones important enough that if I had time I would blog them, but just won’t be able to so I’d still like the link love and readers to be shared.

I’m trying to keep the links in the daily post to be really good, and not even do it everyday, but that’s why I do it.

Work for you?

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Why I do daily Diigo link posts and think it’s okay