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April 13, 2007
I am addicted to del.icio.us...
I kid you not; I am addicted to del.icio.us. I don’t even know how it happened. A few months ago I was fine without it, but now I check the hotlist every time I check my email; every time - 3 or 4 times a day. I think I might need a 12 step program...
In all seriousness, I think del.icio.us is a great tool; not for the tagging feature, but for the organization of websites based upon popularity (and hopefully usefulness). I realize that tagging makes this possible, but the organization part is so much better. In fact, when I can not find what I am looking for through the usual search methods (Google), I use del.icio.us and I haven’t been disappointed yet. Del.icio.us is achieving what Google set out to (organize the world’s information) in a slightly better way.
I don’t mean to say that del.icio.us is infallible, there are some problems. I have seen a lot of horrible sites make it to the hotlist with less than 100 tags. But, all in all, the sites are pretty good.
If I had to change one thing about the del.icio.us assignment, I would loosen the ‘tag every day’ requirement. I tried to tag only when I found something I would need later, not everyday just to tag. It ended up that I would tag every other day or so; but still, why have a requirement that encourages tagging just to tag?
Posted by brackme at April 13, 2007 11:34 AM