I have no philosophical objection to tags (given their usual freeform nature)...perhaps I should - as a librarian? I think in most contexts it works well when they are there in conjunction with more formalised, or "official", ones. I guess that's having a bet each way!
I noted that the ABC appeared to be the assigners on their webpages (ie rather than opening this up to the public -although of course listeners/viewers can comment in other ways to the site). What does this apparent caution indicate? I will be interested to see what the facility of tagging on our new Search catalogue will reveal. Not scared, just interested!
I had started accessing del.icio.us a while ago (God it's hard, and annoying, to type that word...have to think about it every time!). I think I haven't really utilised it as I could, or perhaps should have; it really is quite useful. For example on the Chat services, Ask Now and SLVchat. But I haven't got into the habit of looking at it and remembering to add to it all the interesting sites I come across. I wonder about the social networking angle too. I haven't explored that in "real life" yet. ie other than reading about it as part of this exercise.
But as an indication of my intentions at least: I've just downloaded the del.icio.us add-on from Firefox to my imac at home. We'll see...
Created a Library thing accnt, but will need to go home to add any more titles of my own! I did actually once recommend this for someone wanting to do some amateur "cataloguing" for a small collection they had in an organisation. Were wanting to be able to search, keep track of, and lend items. I would have been interested to know if they'd found it useful. I think theoretically it serves the purposes they were mentioning.
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