This one's fun to play around with. Clicking on different parts of any entry leads you serendipitously to other things you already are interested in. Clicking on the "saved by xxx people" link (in this case using the broad term "recipes"), yields not only the taggers' description of the site they've saved, but also the ability to click on 'them' to see other sites they've tagged.
You Project Play mavens asked whether we as librarians are unsettled by the uncontrolled vocabulary aspect of del.icio.us. Veddy interesting to consider... I suspect that to a certain extent this may be more unsettling to the older generation of the library world. (Oh wait, that's me!)
Most librarians tend to think that a side benefit of our profession is that we are better internet searchers. We think in keywords, and have a certain hierarchical organization of information hard-wired into our brains. One consequence of tagging which I personally like is that it encourages the rest of the world to also think in keywords. We should applaud that somewhat unconscious organizing of information by the non-library world and find it informative. For example, the tag cloud on the teen site listed in Week 8's lesson in itself provides a graphic illustration of interests of teens today.
One use of the social bookmarking aspect we at Lakeview are just starting to explore is using del.icio.us to organize some of our often-used bookmarks, thanks to Andrew in Automation for adding the buttons to our toolbar. Almost any worksite can benefit by aspects of the 2.0 world and this one has us excited. Ya gotta love Project Play. (shameless pandering alert, but true)
You Project Play mavens asked whether we as librarians are unsettled by the uncontrolled vocabulary aspect of del.icio.us. Veddy interesting to consider... I suspect that to a certain extent this may be more unsettling to the older generation of the library world. (Oh wait, that's me!)
Most librarians tend to think that a side benefit of our profession is that we are better internet searchers. We think in keywords, and have a certain hierarchical organization of information hard-wired into our brains. One consequence of tagging which I personally like is that it encourages the rest of the world to also think in keywords. We should applaud that somewhat unconscious organizing of information by the non-library world and find it informative. For example, the tag cloud on the teen site listed in Week 8's lesson in itself provides a graphic illustration of interests of teens today.
One use of the social bookmarking aspect we at Lakeview are just starting to explore is using del.icio.us to organize some of our often-used bookmarks, thanks to Andrew in Automation for adding the buttons to our toolbar. Almost any worksite can benefit by aspects of the 2.0 world and this one has us excited. Ya gotta love Project Play. (shameless pandering alert, but true)
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