Bookmarking/tagging

I love bookmarking because it helps me to remember a great site that I want to revisit to view new content. Tagging? Not so much.

It may surprise a lot of you, but even though I love the concept of information organization (cataloguing, if you will. ahem), I am terrible at it!! As Janis, Val and Jackie can attest to, I am actually not that good at cataloguing. Details have never been my strong point. All this to say that this also makes me choke when trying to think of descriptive words to use in a tag. I mean, "funny" can only be used so many times, and anything more detailed usually tends to stand alone.

Perhaps I am over thinking the situation for my own personal use, but I certainly think that tagging and social bookmarking is very useful. However, it is not a saviour, and a perfect OPAC tagged by users it does not make. I like to say that a tag is only as good as the number of items it has received. What I mean by that is ... a tag is only going to help people find as many things that are actually tagged with it!!

Did that make sense?

WOW -- look at that; one "Friday" afternoon, and Jane managed to catch up on RULA 2.0. Happy Family Day everyone!!