November 17, 2007

23 Things Assignment #5

Tagging & Social Bookmarking - del.icio.us

An interesting tool. One good feature is being able to access your favourites list anywhere, at any computer. You could keep track of alot of sites by using your own tags.

The thing about tags is that they can mean different things to different people. Without controlled vocabulary & controlled subject headings, tags are just keywords. I had a hard time deciding if searching del.icio.us using a tag was more or less efficient than a Google search using the same term.

It was fun to click on some of the tags, like "cool", or "fun", and see some of the sites other poeple have tagged. Fun to browse if you're bored.

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