I am gscronce on del.icio.us. I mostly use del.icio.us as a personal tool for bookmarking articles and sites of interest, and when I’m using the web on a computer that has the toolbar buttons, I find myself tagging things fairly frequently if I’m doing any sort of research. Since my laptop just died, it’s nice to know that I am increasingly storing my web preferences and results in places like del.icio.us and flickr, so that if all the data on my computer is lost I can still access some things, and they will all be organized with the tags I have given them. I don’t have contacts on del.icio.us and don’t use it much for networking in that sense, but it can be interesting to look at other peoples’ lists.
Quest 6: Part 2 (technorati) September 27, 2007
I have never used Technorati very much. I think this says something about how I incorporate blogs into my information-seeking behavior online. I usually learn about blogs that I want to read from other blogs, or else I have a particular author in mind and I track down their blog (again, usually froma a link or general web search). Technorati’s concept of Authority is interesting–the more other people link to your blog, the more authority you have on Technorati. To me, this sounds like popularity as much as anything else–interesting that in the blogosphere, popularity is very akin to authority. Is it that there are so many blogs out there that only the ones really worth their weight will end up with lots of links, and therefore they really do have more authority?
ps-I discovered that to add my technorati tags, I needed to look at my post in code view–otherwise WordPress added some code to my code that messed up how it came out.
