Not so tasty

 

I'm still not convinced by the 'tag cloud' phenomenon, even after having read a number of blog entries about why they're useful (see here for example). Just because I only have one bookmark with the tag 'ephemera' doesn't mean that it's less important to me than a tag that appears larger in the cloud. It may just be that I can only find one site that I want to keep an eye on for that particular tag.

The networking tool also strikes me as odd. I've added a couple of people to my list, and now I get some random bookmarks appearing that are of no interest to me whatsoever. Just because someone shares my interest in letterpress (good) doesn't mean that they're not also interested in Egg Watching (bad).

Whilst I'm struggling to find a personal use for Delicious, I can see their importance for libraries and educational institutions, and I must admit that I'd be quite happy squandering quite a lot of time playing about with the possibilities, and nosing into the bookmarks collected by other people.

It's not you, it's me

It's just me, I suppose, but sites like Delicious seem to be aimed at people who use the web in a more systematic way than I do.

The site was easy to use and fairly intuitive but I can't see how I would use Delicious on a personal level. If I'm at home I have my bookmarks organised in my web browser and I don't really see why I would want to share my bookmarks with other people.

If I'm at work I tend to use different bookmarks but if I did want to look at a site bookmarked on my Mac at home I'd be more likely to Google it than log into another web site. If some of our fellows used Delicious a little like a reading list, then it might be useful for the library to know about it, but I've not heard of anyone considering this.

I'll look at the other 23 Things blogs to see what other people think, but if anyone uses Delicious on a personal or professional level, I'd be interested to hear about it.