When You Say Del.icio.us, You've Said it All

I used the sloganizer to come up with a title for this post and had to decide between this one and "the gods made del.icio.us". I decided that while the techie people who designed the social bookmarking site are probably pretty smart and special, I don't think I can quite classify them as gods yet.

I've become familiar with tags over the last couple of years but truthfully can not find a use for del.icio.us in my repertoire of web tools personally. I know all the arguments but really have few bookmarks that I need to take with me from computer to computer and the ones I do need I can generally either remember or find as necessary. And while I did set up an account as part of this week's assignment, I wasn't able to add the buttons to my work computer because it requires installation and only the automation gurus are able to do that. Without the buttons on the toolbar, adding links becomes much harder.

That's not to say del.icio.us isn't of use to libraries. In fact our library is working on converting our web page links into del.icio.us (as an aside I have to say that typing that name each time is sort of a pain - can I just call it Delish?) bookmarks which would hopefully be editable by anyone on staff once they are set up. That would mean that if I found a cool new consumer site, I could add it to our reference links/Delish bookmarks rather then having to contact the library web masters.

Will I use my personal Delish account? Doubtful. But it was fun to explore it a little more and the whole idea of tagging in this weeks' assignment.