Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a way to share and find web pages. To use them, you need an account at the web sites that provide this service. Many sites allow you to keep some or all of your bookmarks private or available only to people you choose.

Clicking on one of the social bookmarking links provided at the end of each of our posts ( etc.), the location and title of the post is sent to the site's bookmark page (if you're logged in to that site). On most sites, you then add descriptive tags to indicate the subject matter and to help others find the bookmarked post (if public). For example, tagging a post with "wind energy" will ensure that it appears on the site's "wind energy" page and that it will be returned when someone searches on the site for bookmarks about "wind energy".

Social bookmarking sites are often used before a general web search, because pages are selected by other members of the site, categorized, and often rated and commented on -- thus narrowing the search to what others have already found to be worthwhile.

We encourage users of the National Wind Watch web site to use social bookmarking to help make the information and news provided here more widely available for debates and research.

RSS web feeds

Feeds report the changing content of a web site in a standardized format. National Wind Watch uses the RSS 2.0 format by default, but others, such as Atom, are also available. The feed provides a list of the latest posts, including each title, the whole post or an excerpt, a link to its location, its date, and its categories. RSS stands for "really simple syndication" or "rich site summary".

National Wind Watch has separate feeds for the News Watch, Resource Library, Alerts & Events, and Photos & Graphics areas of the web site. There is also a feed for each of the categories in the first three areas. In addition, the National Wind Watch newsletter can deliver a daily update right to your e-mail inbox. There are also syndication options for easily adding NWW feeds to your own web site.

When you click on the RSS symbol () or the "RSS" link in category listings, the feed will open in a feed reader, either a standalone program or the feed-reading feature built into newer web browsers and e-mail programs.

Alternatively, there are many web sites where you can view and organize feeds. You can add a National Wind Watch feed to one of those sites by clicking on the corresponding icon ( etc.) provided under the RSS symbol or link.