Bookmarking done on sites like Delicious is clever because it is not tied to any one computer and is social because you can share your bookmarks with others and they can share theirs with you. The Delicious site allows you to add tags to each bookmark which make it much easier to sort and find anything. National Library of Australia, using del.ico.us to support collaborative virtual reference seems to me to be a wonderful idea which I would think could save librarians considerable amount of time once it has built up to house websites that help answer many of the most often asked questions.
The cloud tag that Sutherland Shire has used is a neat and interesting way to index all there tags. It is great that the tags in the cloud are in alphabetical order and easy to find. The fact the Delicious site gives people the choice between the Home page’s more standard indexing style and the new look cloud index is great. I like the way Cleveland Library has placed a single link and a categorised index to their bookmarks on delicious.
LibraryThing has taken the power of a mass coordinated effort to bring some amazing information together. It is wonderful to see what the majority of people using the site like when it comes to areas such as 25 most reviewed books, top 25 books by star rating, top 75 authors (author cloud) by number of copies and the other side of the coin 50 lowest-rated authors Authors with at least five ratings and three raters (rating/number/raters). Isn't this fascinating?
Technorati normal & an advanced search of bookmobile both found 264 results. It is impressive to hear that Technorati is tracking 112 million blogs. A search on nswpln2008 did not bring up any results except under images where there are heaps.
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