Week 6 : Blogging

This week we look at Del.icio.us.

I had a look at ‘Youth Tech- MySpace handouts’ which had a range of positive and negative comments about MySpace over issues such as access to pornography. The site ‘Youth Tech’ covers a range of issues such as ‘Gaming in Libraries’ using both categories, implying the use of a taxonomy perhaps as well as tags.

Could Del.icio.us be used for research purposes? The idea of bookmarking specific subjects with a range of different links and having easy access via the desktop is attractive. However there remains the same problem of authenticity and relevance that you find using Wikipaedia which could put some people off using it. A further problem remains the use of tags instead of subject headings in these tools (check out the debates on folksomonies and taxonomies on the Net). So I can’t see that delicious would have much application in research and public libraries.