I was a heavy Delicious user and proponent at first, but quickly fed into its over-watered, over-polluted system of links that I couldn’t think to re-mine through solely because even my own link list had become a dump- my definition of information overload.

Normal search, a-la-Google has taught a generation of users that it’s okay not to horde the internet, but to instead rely on search for both discovery and recovery.

The new Delicious with Stacks seems to be a different approach. A cross pollination of Wikipedia, traditional Delicious, search and a bit of Squidoo. But, finally a tool that understands the power of curation.

Stacks allows the individual to tailor a particular niche topic from tried/tested resources across the web. So where traditional Delicious was about archiving, new Delicious is about discovery.

Looking to understand a new topic, interest or passion? Delicious it. Rather than simple search which provides a nominal list of page-ranked links, you get someone’s personal view on a topic. Follow fulfilling web-curators. Learn. Share. Reciprocate.

Further reading:

• AVOS - A New Flavor…Still Delicious

• Jason Kottke - The new Delicious