I have managed to stay on top of my email and the rest of my digital life, save for one thing, my bookmarks. There are lots of techniques and tools for managing your inbox, your files, your music, etc… There are also tools that purport to help you manage your bookmarks. Delicious née del.icio.us 
has not helped me with my bookmarks. The new, and much improved, bookmark management system in Firefox 3 has also not helped me. Thus I think that I am going to declare bookmark bankruptcy. Just like a financial or email bankruptcy, I think that I am going to cast off the many hundreds of bookmarks that I have and start over.
Have any of you dear readers tackled this problem?
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Stop bookmarking. I did just that, and now wonder why I started in the first place. If I want to find, say, that cool video about Russian climbers, I simply type “Russian” and “Climbers” into Google, hit search. Even if I need to refine these results or try new search terms, it’s still faster than using Delicious; if there’s one thing for certain, it’s that that Google will absolutely have this (and all!) video indexed. Delicious (or any collection of bookmarks for that matter), on the other hand, requires that I, at some point in the past, remembered to bookmark this particular video–a rather dubious assumption to work with I’d say!
Do you keep a list of frequently accessed sites in your bookmark list? I have created a bookmark toolbar in Firefox that has served me well. It has about 20 bookmarks, all things that I access with some frequency, not via RSS. Speaking of RSS I think that RSS also has a lot to do with my an your trending away from bookmarks.
As for Google as a bookmark replacement, I have gone down this road after reading about someone crying out against bookmarks and singing the praises of Google in their lieu. I had mixed success at best. I spent a long time trying to find things via Google that I could have found quickly with a smaller search space. I think that maybe my solution is to keep some bookmarks, categorized, in Firefox and to use something like the Read It Later extension to tag my actionable URLs.