Week #6 - Thing #13: discover del.icio.us & tagging. Tagging is a cool way to organize just about anything. It's simply attaching key search words to a particular piece of content. Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. It allows you to catalog all of your favorite websites and tag them so you and/or other users can find them easily. You can also view how many people have a specific website bookmarked. I searched for the tag "23 things". The PLCMC library's "official learning 2.0" blog came up. 941 del.icio.us users have this site bookmarked. If you click on the number of bookmarks, it takes you to a page that lets you see exactly who else has that site bookmarked, and also, any comments that users have posted about that site. Some comments on this learning 2.0 blog were: "Get your library up to date", and "designed to encourage staff to explore new technologies".
I can see how surfing through del.icio.us could take up a ton of someone's time. Sharing your bookmarks allows others to find some hidden gems in the world wide web! I found a cool google map mashup. Dig to the Other Side. It lets you pick your location on one side of the world, and then shows you where you would end up if you dug a hole to the other side of the world. If I dug a hole in my bedroom to the other side of the earth, I'd end up in the indian ocean off the coast of australia!
I think another way del.icio.us can serve you is by giving you a place to access your bookmarks from any computer. It would also be a useful research tool to use, while searching in del.icio.us for sites with specific tags, you can see what other sites were tagged similarly that may not have shown up in a plain google search.
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