As a reference librarian I have already been introduced to the concept of social bookmarking and using del.icio.us. At the time I understood the value of having a collection of favourite or frequently used websites saved in one location for future perusal. I did, however, fail to see the social networking benefits, in that people might find it useful to browse others' lists and discover new websites as a result of searching common tags. The short "Social Bookmarking in Plain English" video demystified the process of using del.icio.us and opened up some advantages for myself!
Briefly searching del.icio.us and adding my own blog to the library's account has helped me to understand how to navigate this site. In my del.icio.us travels I explored the Visual Arts pages of my local library's account and was interested in seeing the lists of other people who had added particular web pages to their accounts. I then visited some of their accounts.
I have seen tag clouds on web pages before (but didn't know they were called this). One page that springs to mind is the Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/ After searching for a particular movie one can click on a plot keyword and then a tag cloud is presented to assist further searching. flickr also has a category of tags that have been created in the last 24 hours and over the last week. I clicked on eastermonday and found lots of pictures of people out and about relaxing! I look forward to utilising del.icio.us and exploring tags in general in the future.
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