Delicious is something that's cropped up in my radar a time or two in the past, but I'd never seen reason to try to figure out the what, why, or how of it before. I appreciate the fact of it, and perhaps some day will have good use for it myself, but as things stand now, I'm just glad to have experienced it. This is sort of a second class research tool in my opinion; it could be a good jumping-off point, but I due to the folkonomic nature of it, I don't know that it would be a strong enough resource to rely upon. (Yes, I realise that you're just using it to get to other sites, but you end up dependant on mob logic rather than true reasoning. (That's my latent reference librarian rearing it's ugly head)). I also see the usefulness of an online bookmark database, but I'd be curious to find out what percentage of the population accesses the internet from public computers as compared to those who only use their own personal machines. Group research projects or "shared interest" groups seem to me to be the most logical application of the program, and anyone who's familiar should immediately see what I mean.
'Til next time,
Brian
Monday, October 6, 2008
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