Week 6 Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us

I have heard about ‘tag’ for a while but I’ve never found opportunities to know more or practice it. I’m a ‘bookworm’ instead of ‘webworm’. I read quite a lot books but not websites. Basically, I’m still a traditional type of person. Nowadays, everything seems become new to me, new terms, technologies or devices etc. I’ve to catch up with others, and that’s a big challenge fro me.

From WiKipedia, as a term in computing science, ‘tag’ can be Tags, HTML tag or Tag system etc. I assured that the ‘tag’ here refer to the definition of tags, which is a relevant keyword of term associated with or assigned to a piece of information, thus describing the term and enabling keyword-based classification and search for them. Tags are usually chosen informing and personally by people. I’ve also learned ‘tag cloud’, which is a visual description of content tags used on a website. I’ve ever seen them a few times but I didn’t realized that they are ‘a group of tags’.
The ‘tag’ we’re talking about here is different from the one for library subject cataloging. It’s more freedom and casual, they’re chosen by us, we can rename, save or delete them anytime.

I’ve explored Del.icio.us. I love this name, it’s pretty cool. I found out that a huge number of links already there for nearly everything. We can find anything we interested. I’ve tried to search the tag ‘web 2.0’, and then I got quite a few links and clicked some of them, they are very relevant. Next, I created an account in it, which is very ease to access. I added 3 tags in my account and saved them in my favourites. See http://del.icio.us/kathyfu2007/. It’s not hard but takes time to get familiar with it. I’ll do more later.