Tagging My Stuff

I already had a Del.icio.us account when I started this exercise, but I realized that I had never done anything with it. Doh! Well, at least now I have learned how it can help me in my research. I tried to make up for ignoring the power of this web app by importing all of my bookmarks from Firefox, which integrates so well with Del.icio.us. The neat thing about doing this is now I can see what lots of other people have found on a particular topic. It's almost like working collaboratively with a group of people who are also interested in some of my esoteric topics. I can see how using Del.icio.us could really improve the scope of some research projects. It also reminded of a shareware application I bought a few years ago that was a browser-independent bookmark tool. I had access to the same bookmarks whether I was using Internet Explorer, Mozilla, or Opera. The problem was that the application had to reside on the computer I was using, so it was difficult to use it both at home and at work. Del.icio.us solves that problem nicely.