Assignment for Week 4 of MLA CE class
Social Bookmarking: Create a blog post about your experience and thoughts about this tool. Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere?
It was great to have a reason to make myself look at del.icio.us. I've heard and read about it a bit but didn't really "get it." Can't say I totally "get it" yet, but I'm closer to understanding. I can definitely see applications for social bookmarking in a work setting, for creating sets of bookmarks on various topics. I think it would be useful for our patrons who use our public PCs and can't bookmark their favorite sites since they never know which PC they'll get to use. del.icio.us is certainly a great tool for accessing one's bookmarks from anywhere, but it has many broader uses than that.
I find the tagging aspect of del.icio.us somewhat confusing. I think I need to spend more time exploring it, but it seems so random. It seems like you have to put in so many synonyms because of all the different ways one might search for a bookmark. I can see though if you consistently use a particular tag to group things that that would be useful.
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