Del.icio.us is yet another one of these 2.0 technologies that I have heard tons about, but never really got around to checking out. The Otter Group vid on the features was really helpful in explaining the power of the tool, and I think that, out of all the tools we've explored so far, this is the one that I am going to get into.
Just a cool side note...I "met" a chap down in Australia this summer who is pursuing his MLIS with a concentration in digital archiving of audiovisuals. He started a really nice looking website at Archivism.net, and he has synced his del.icio.us account bookmarks with his Links list on his website. Anyways, his bookmarks are really outstanding. He has over 150 tags to describe all of the websites he has found. I've spent many hours trolling through his links, sometimes ofr information, and other times just for entertainment.
In this case, I found someone that I trust who has collected an outstanding collection of websites. In other words, I used him as a filter. I find that this happens with G-chat statuses...whenever a friend has a link in their status bar, I will inevitably check it out because I am pretty sure that I will find the material linked to interesting or funny or informative. Examples like these demonstrate how individual, "ordinary" people are shaping the trends of the Internet, and actively altering digital culture.
If you'd like to check out my Aussie friend's bookmarks, go here: http://delicious.com/archivism.net
Maybe in a few days, I'll have a link to my own account!
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Ah you have made an interesting discovery - this is what I like about Twitter - pretty much everything tweeted by those I follow is already "filtered" b/c I have chosen to follow these people for one reason or another - so all their tweets are interesting/useful/entertaining/of meaning to me! This is why a lot of people say that Twitter has replaced their RSS feeds for news and information and links etc...
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