Week 6 Assignment del.icio.us & technorati

I LOVE love love LOVE del.icio.us.
It has kept me sane -- what with using different computers at work, at home, and at Western when I was teaching.

• I use it to keep track of articles when I'm making up a reading list for my course.
• I use it to keep track of my user names and passwords for various accounts -- I keep those bookmarks private and encode my password, to boot.
• I LOVE IT!

My only complaint is that ITS yells at me if I install the delicious toolbar at work. I've been trying for six months to live without the toolbar, and just tag by copying the URL, the way Lisa showed us earlier this year. It works. But it's such a drag. Three steps instead of one.

Definitely one of the first 2.0 things I would bug ITS about. But it depends who else at RWL cares. Does anyone else like del.icio.us?

Thanks for getting me to check out a popular tag -- I had forgotten how to see other people's comments.
Ironically the one I picked was the New York Times new API service. Ironically because what they are sharing is their set of tags -- a consistent well thought out set of subject headings.
Doesn't this remind me of something???
Yikes, it's like letting people use the Library of Congress Subject headings -- at their desktops.

Technorati
I can't see the video -- it may be my husband's computer.

As I am currently tutoring an electronic information course for SOLS, I was fascinated to see the different search results, depending on whether it was a search of indexer-applied subjects/tags -- or a keyword search. Boy, keyword searches are certainly screwing up some of my students!

Would it be useful? Hmm.
I wonder if that's how Oakville Public Library and Bibliocommons found out I had mentioned them in my blog. I got emails from both of them the day after I made my post.
However, don't you have to register for Technorati to add you to it?