So I’ve been playing around with the collaborative bookmark management system del.icio.us, I’d heard of it but when Greg and Steve started raving about it I decided to actually take the step of checking it out. I am a follower, not a leader. Those guys are like the library blogging Kirk and Spock and I am one of the hapless red shirted crewman stumbling around on the web, soon to get crushed by a styrofoam avalanche.

Can you tell I watched way too much Star Trek in my formative years? I’m sorry!

Anyway, I’m seriously enjoying del.icio.us, the collaborative nature of the system means that often when I visit the page and see the bookmarks that other people have added, I think “Oh right, I need to read that!” and I can add it to my own bookmarks. I do like some aspects of the categorization, if you click on a category like RSS you can see other bookmarks from other users who use the same tag. I seems like you have to have single word tags though. I tagged a couple items as “library instruction” and instead of that phrase being a tag, I got two tags, one for “library” and one for “instruction” which wasn’t exactly what I was going for. So I renamed those items with the more jargony “infolit” because I wanted those things to be in a different category than any general library links I might bookmark. I’ve added links to my del.icio.us page and the rss feed over on the left side of my blog.