I read this article and I have to say that it was one of the first ones I read for this course that really made me more aware of how I was using a particular technology: in this case del.icio.us. I used this site for quite a while and even implemented it where I work. My main reason for using it, is the fact that I can access it from anywhere (as opposed to favourites saved onto a computer) and that several users can be logged in at one time under one account. Of course, I wasn't looking only at a way of saving the sites but also, of organizing them. However, I am not obsessed with tagging, I only use it because that is the way of organizing sites in del.icio.us.
This article talks exactly about this concept of the fact that most people use del.icio.us to save their sites not to tag (and so to aggregate tags). It makes perfect sense, I just always had the feeling that other people were more interested in the feature that del.icio.us has of aggregating tags. It's interesting to know that people actually use it for the basics: to save their favourite sites.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
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I think you're right about users using tags simply to aggregate their favourite sites as opposed to attaching meaningful subject headings to them. Perhaps as librarians we get too caught up in the organization of content and think that everyone is "into it" as we are...they're not...just just want to spend less time finding their favourite sites.
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