07 April 2008

Silly boy blue - Tagging, folksonomies, delicious & LibraryThing

Del.icio.us has been quite useful for bookmarking my favourite or useful websites. Only problem is I have to have many of the sites marked as private as they are innapropriate for shared computers at work. A few of my sites are shared and i'll get around to sharing more in the future.



I like the way some quick search boxes appear within the listings, so searches can be performed from within Del.icio.us.

Del.icio.us would make a great library reference links page, similar to the one Sutherland put together.

I tried looking up Bookmobile in Technorati and got the same results in both the keyword and advanced search, so I thought this was a bit of flim-flam on the State Library's part, then I scrolled down and found the tag search box and tried the search there. I ended up with a much more useful list of 25 hits.

I now have a LibraryThing account.

I like the way you can add covers and see other readers who like the same books.

I'm about to start using GuruLib instead though as I like the way I can catalogue my CDs, although that will take me a few years to do! I'll have to stop buying them.

2 comments:

pls@slnsw said...

I'm a new fan of librarything. I also loved the the curious incident of the dog in the nightime..maybe I will give mercan Psycho a try after all.

Leanne

this green elizabeth silver jellybean mug said...

Hi Leanne, American psycho was very funny, however there is a lot of violence which is extremely graphic.