Finally... del.icio.us

Assignment #13 Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

I've been ignoring del.icio.us for quite some time now...it just didn't look like something I'd need. In these days of good search engines and Google search form in my Firefox toolbar, I just don't have a lot of bookmarks (unlike 10 years ago). Also, the sites that I use most everyday I have saved in my Firefox tabs so they open everytime I boot up Firefox. Plus I'm not on a lot of computers--just my office PCs and my laptop at home. (The same reason I don't need an iPod--I stream my favorite music where I sit.)

But now I've bitten the bullet and set up my del.icio.us account. It was quite simple to register, export my bookmarks from Firefox from my work desktop, then import them to del.icio.us. It was also very simple to add the del.icio.us functionality to Firefox. It took me a bit to figure out that I shouldn't put commas between the tags, but other than that I imported and tagged just under 200 bookmarks in an hour or so. Now that I've done it, I think it will be quite useful. :)

I DO love LibraryThing!

Assignment #11 A Thing About LibraryThing

Well, I now see that I should have read ahead and seen that we would be covering LibraryThing--if I had I would have held off making my July 3 post showing off a LibraryThing widget designed for blogs. And I probably would have waited on creating my own library in LibraryThing. Previously the library I was working with was that of the OU Women's Center. Kiffany, Whitney, Char, and I worked on setting it up. Now Marlene at the Women's Center enters the donated books as she gets them in.

Last week, prior to seeing the assignment, I set up a library for myself. I hadn't done it previously because I don't keep books, except for a few reference works. I borrow from friends and libraries, or if I do buy a book, I pass it on after reading it (usually to a library).

However, lately I've taken to reading a lot of escapist fiction works that are parts of series, and I'm having trouble keeping track of which books in the series I've already read, and which I want to read next. So that is the purpose of my LibraryThing library.

This one is a tag cloud....



This one shows random book covers....



Go to http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2007/07/my-library-of-congress-talk.php to see a Library of Congress talk by the LibraryThing Guy.