Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Res.ult.swi.th.del.icio.us

As with many of the lessons, in order to reap big rewards with Del.icio.us one would need to invest quite a bit of time, which I don't seem to have. Everything feels more comfortable and easier the more you play around with it, so I won't presume that this tool could not become more comfortable for me--but in my bit of exploring I wasn't overwhelmed. For instance, I searched for Northern Arizona University, and one of the tags proffered was nau. So I clicked on that tag, but none of the subsequent offerings had anything to do with Northern Arizona University. That's one of the drawbacks to folksonomies (which, by the way, seems to be spelled incorrectly on PLCMCL2's tutorial) as opposed to taxonomies. The plus side is that you can type in basically any word and get hits, and then be given a choice of similar tags to choose from. So I typed in meerkats (my favorite wild animal), and got these cute and funny photos at the following spot: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/05/nmeer105.xml

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