Delicious Delicious

Loging in was easy. I decided not try to link to my previous experiments with delicious as it would only be an added complication and probably drive me to distraction. I think I did things a bit differently from the instructions adding delicious thru' the FireFox Add-Ons. I used the import bookmarks option so my delicious account was instantly populated. Just how many redunant bookmarks can one person have! I was unsuccessful with adding the "bookmarklet" and will have to go back and try this functionality again.
I found navigation thru' my long list easy by selecting my tags. I tried the bulk edit option after I had copied and pasted my string of tags and description from a file on notepad! The editing functionality was easy.
I used the tag function to bring togther my sites on Buddhism and/or book history but it would have been nice to have them arranged in a permanent set of results.
I like the search function which allows one to search within your bookmarks, your networks' bookmarks and within delicious.

At first acquaintance delicious apppears a useful tool to organise a wide range of web resources. Delicious allows you access all your books from a remote location on any computer so you don't have them linked to a worl machine or personal laptop which seems a good thing. The tagging function permits the association of keywords with a variety of web media. It is useful to be able identify those users within delicious who share your tags and build a personal network of those who share your interests outside your immediate networks. The tagging function might I feel be used rather like a citation index; identifying key sites, and perhaps some offbeat ones too and, in locating related sites. It is a bit like throwing a pebble in the pond and watching the ripples spreading ever outward. The tags also revealed an number sites in languages other than English which might not otherwise not have been found depending of course that you can read French or German or Italian ... The top ten tags functionality is useful in identifying appropriate and helpful keywords. My only reservation is that self assigned keywords that are tags can lead to inconsistency and imprecision within your own bookmarks. It also lends a certain unpredicatability when searching within delicious for related sites of interest. It seems to be a good tool for sharing a relevent selection of key web resources with a group of readers or researchers for example my list of sites of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies. I also have a list of key sites for Chinese Studies too.

I hope Angela likes my link to Tibetan Art works.

I need rather more time to locate and read up on the uses of tagging and folksonomies.