ACTIVITY 13 TAGGING

I found the del.icio.us software to be of little use. The tutorial video was hard to understand. Part of the problem was the connection speed (<100 kbps) and part of it was the monotone voice and rambling of the speaker. She assumed that the listener was a graduate student familiar with the software and that she was preaching to the choir. The slackerman link showed no results for the habits of highly successful del.icio.us users, and the beelerspace.com posting was hard to follow. It was almost like a stream of consciousness conversation with minute details that added little.

I can see advantages to using tagging, if you were someone doing research and sharing it with others working on the same research team. I would not use it as I am uncomfortable revealing that much information to the entire web.