The purpose of The Daily Clique, part one

I began The Daily Clique a few days ago after spending a month thinking not just about the purpose of the blog but also about how to clarify that purpose for visitors, many of whom might never have heard of delicious.com. I also assumed that most of the visitors who have heard of delicious either don’t use it or use it sporadically. That’s okay: I’m not here to evangelize for a social bookmarking site; I’m here to share great links and sources.

But I’m also here to find delicious users who are unknown to me and share some of my interests. The 21 usernames in the list to the right constitute the current Clique. To qualify a user doesn’t necessarily need ten bookmarks per day going back to 2003; she just routinely needs to share interesting links that I would not ordinarily have found.

Sure, I prefer articles and websites somehow related to my chief interests—urbanism, transportation, planning, mapping and pragmatist philosophy—but I’m more concerned that the Clique provides me with a rich set of sources and online experiences.

I hold some members of the Clique as sacred and virtually above replacement (TomC, for example) but I’m very open to your suggestions of new delicious users to replace anybody in the current 21. The idea is that by making incremental changes to the makeup of the Clique, I’ll iterate towards a richer collection of links from which to cull the few that I share each day.