#13 del.icio.us

I am not quite sure why this would be tasty! However I can see it's usefulness in tracking regular sites no matter which computer you may be sitting at!

For my fun and exploration of del.icio.us, I decided to check out other library blogs. The tags column is located on the right, so I clicked on "Library Blogs". There were 8 items shown. I decided to select the 4th on the list ie. "Public Libraries - Blogging Libraries" to see if ERL (my own library service) had been listed. Scrolling through the very long list - there it was!!! I also found a couple of other Victorian Public Libraries, those being Yarra Plenty Regional Library and Casey-Cardinia Library Corporation.

However I was a little baffled at first about the second part of the exercise! Then I discovered that I needed to click on "saved by ... other people" to see posting histories and user notes.

I also discovered that beside this link, there was also a "to __________" link which does the same as though I had clicked on the name of the tag on the RHS of the del.icio.us webpage.

I could see myself finding this useful in a professional manner to track what was happening in the way of library programs in public libraries around the world, not to mention my personal interests that I could be tracking also through this bookmarking or tagging system.

My only concern would be as a cataloguer to adjust to free-form tagging when I am so used to having stringent rules!!!