I finally got a chance to create a del.icio.us account to bookmark the myriad of links that I am gathering as part of the 23 Things course. http://del.icio.us/gipsylibrarian
Benefits
- Easy to set up an account
- Bookmarks don’t get deleted when computers crash or get rebuilt
- Access to favourites from anywhere that has internet access
Thoughts on tagging
Social Tagging (where tags link to tags used by other users) is really very similar to cross referencing - Librarians have been doing this forever!
- Del.icio.us is not as disorganised as I first thought
- I think it is better to limit the number of tags to make things more manageable
- The quality of the tags (and the tagger’s ability) does vary greatly. Perhaps some people have training in filing and indexing (or even library training!) or are just naturally logical, methodical types!