I found the searching activity quite hard. (I think it was deliberately designed to be difficult to make a point). I do quite like delicious, but it certainly wouldn’t be my first port of call for researching. Tags are far too subjective a way of classifying information. My cataloguing friends must roll their eyes in horror at such sites.
BTW – it would be really useful if there was a standard for stringing tags. This site, for example, allows spaces between words but requires a comma to indicate the end of a tag and the start of the next one. Delicious uses spaces to indicate a new tag. It is all very confusing.
My tagging on this blog has been somewhat haphazard. Some posts I thought I’d tagged, but haven’t. I do wonder how I will manage if I find myself wanting to track down some pithy comment once this course is over. If I’d been writing in a notebook I’d be fairly confident of finding the note I wanted. Not so sure this is ture with a blog.
Frauke said
I agree with your statement about the tagging, Sharon – I’m extremely unimaginative when it comes to thinking of meaningful tags (and the ones I do think of one day may not be the same the next day….). I think tagging is a skill that should be taught just like using search engines!
Frauke
Sharon said
I just noticed that I mis-spelt a tag I used on the collaborative blog. Oops. Yet another problem with tags.