new tools

del.icio.us is certainly a tool for those who use more than one computer and want to be able to find that special site again. Trying these things out can be a challenge because I can never think of something I want to search until the middle of the night. So it takes a little practice and some patience. I can see the advantage intellectually but today had more problems with the application than the first time I wandered around on it. Of course I got completely different results than I did the first time. Since I didn't have an account and didn't have the time to set it up the first time I tried it, I couldn't tag the things that really interested me. It will be a treasure hunt to find some of them again, but it won't happen today. Still, I look forward to the adventure some day in the future. And at the end of the assignment, I understand the concept of the tag so now I will have to go back and try it again. However, right now I am intent on just finishing this part of things; I'll leave the exploring for later.

This is certainly a way to create a favorites list of your own instead of cluttering up the favorites on say a reference site. You get the added input of others who researched something as well. If you had sifted through twenty entries looking for just the right information, you could save yourself that trouble the next time if you tagged it. And I think if you were doing serious research, this would be a good way to compile the things that you had found most helpful. I think it will be a useful tool and I can't wait to get more time with it.