Monday, May 14, 2007

Blogs, Tagging, and Folksonomies

Been on vacation, so I have a lot of catching up. Tags and bookmarks. Found out about the useful site called Del.icio.us - a FREE membership website, where you can save your bookmarks, or cool URLs, or websites - so you can access them anywhere in the world on any computer. I think its pretty cool. This helps a lot when you have access to more than one computer, and you do research or just plain old web-surfing.
The use of tags comes in handy, and it's interesting to find out how many other people on line share your interests, your curiosities, your tastes. And if you are feeling adventurous, and not afraid to reach out -- you can make lots of contacts and friends, on the web, and have discussions and sharing of ideas, thoughts, books, and movies. One of the more powerful tools of the Web is its ability to create on-line communities that span the globe, and allow anybody access to people, cultures, and ideas that can change you, the world, and your life..or just share really cool pictures, books, and movies.

Technorati -- a way to search through the massive amounts of blogs out there. It is a cool tool. Since the volume of blogs, blog posts, and bloggers increase every six months, the sheer amount can be overwhelming. Anybody can be a blogger, and so this tool is nice if you want to search for topics, tags, or posts.

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