bookmarks

I was eager to read Ellyssa Kroski's article, The Hive Mind because just last week a co-worker was raving about her after meeting her at a conference. He has let me borrow her book "Web 2.0 for Librarians and Information Professionals" which is a great resource for those that are new to web 2.0.

First Impressions and Eventual Realizations

This week's readings have helped clarify how bookmarking and tagging can be social. Knowing that del.icio.us tags are available to all users and understanding how that becomes social software is quite different. The idea that in tagging personal information people may unknowingly contribute to some kind of global folksonomy is fascinating.  I like the idea that social tagging and more controlled classification methods are complementary and can work together to minimize each other's weaknesses.