I read the info, watched the video, and created an account with Del.icio.us. I started bookmarking, and found it to be like adding "favorites" on steroids. Not only are you keeping track of sites you'd want to go to again, you can get to that list on any computer, not just the one you bookmarked it on. The tagging was interesting. I'm familiar with tagging, but it was weird seeing tags be suggested. As a librarian I can see tagging being sloppier than LC subject headings. The word can mean different things to different people, and false hits occur more often. I still see that it's much easier for people who didn't go to library school.
I can see the power this has in study, and I have a new question I can ask students when I show them a good website. "Do you have a del.icio.us account? You might want to bookmark this one..." What a nice way to keep track of stuff on a topic while researching.
As for the geocaching theme, I started bookmarking geocaching websites, and other related ones, like the one on letterboxing. I clicked on some other sites after going through the tags, and found some cool other geocaching links, like www.everytrail.com. Fun!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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