Wednesday, March 10, 2010

delicious

Delicious is a tasty treat for those who want to carry their favorites from pc to pc. Also perfect as a home page. It could be a very useful platform for numerous organizations, especially libraries. In the current info-scape, where fact-finding doesn't stop between the covers of a book, delicious folksonomies mediate information providers and users in a way that allows the searcher greater autonomy. It also gives the searcher a platform to create their own folksonomies for future references and for other net users. The fact that the information is web based means that computer crashes or missing files aren't an issue if the user has access to other computers - such as those provided by the library.
Although it can take a little time to comprehend the many different features, this technology offers alot in accessing information, and tailoring the methods of accessing.
The ability to link your bookmarks to your blog opens up numerous possibilites for teachers and libraries - really for anyone who provides information in blog form. Although installing link rolls and tag clouds are useful, the process is not as simple as I expected.
All in all, however, the process is much, much easier that writing lines of intersecting html and css code - and don't even get me started on javascript ...

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