Friday, April 9, 2010

Week #3

A little behind, going to Hawaii will do that though :)

What are the advantages of storing, sharing, and tagging web content this way? What are the disadvantages?

I'll start by saying I'm not a huge fan of delicious. I find it a little too much for personal use. However, I do look at other people's accounts from time to time to see what they are reading and to find alternative sources for world news.

I think that the advantage to storing web content using delicious is that all the content is in one place and connected to related information. Unlike saving content to your favorites menu, you can use delicious and it's all there connected and personalized how you want it. Sharing the information is fun and interesting too. It a way to see what your friends/collegues are interested in and where they get their information about whatever. It's also a way to discover 'stuff' you might not have been aware of on your own. Since the Internet is so big it's nice to have something that can help simplify things. The advantage to tagging I think is it's personal so things are organized how your brain thinks and so it's easier to remember where things are when you are looking for something. However, this is both an advantage and disadvantage. Yeah personalized tagging is great because it's more intuitive as compared to subject headings etc, but it also means there is no standardization or consistency. This can makes things harder to find then they should be, or if things are mistagged make using delicious counter productive.

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