image of chocolates courtesy of freefoto.com Del.icio.us is yet another one of those things I've been hearing about for years and have finally gotten to explore. And it is, indeed, as cool as everyone said. It's like a portable bookmark list! That you can add to quickly and easily and without even hardly breaking stride, as you surf and slide around the Internet!
Only a couple of problems:
1. Tagging. Tagging is my bete noire. In my non-work online life I never remember to tag: not blog posts, not photos, not gmail messages, not LibraryThing books. This means that when I search for something (say, in my formidable backlog of old gmail messages on my personal email account) I just have to try to remember what words I might have used in the subject heading or contents of the message, and look under those. Sometimes that works great, sometimes not, sometimes it works but I have to sift through pages and pages of results to find what I'm looking for.
I'm guessing it will be the same on del.icio.us, when and if I accumulate a sizeable list of bookmarks: I won't remember to tag, so they'll just be all jumbled, like the papers on my desk, and I'll have to sift and sort and guess to find what I want.
2. Del.icio.us button. This button is part of what makes del.icio.us so cool, because you don't have to stop and cut and paste to add a site to your del.icio.us account: just see a site you like, click, and voila! it's added. Only problem is, the button isn't available on shared computers (like the NVDPL computers), so some of the advantage of using del.icio.us is nullified when I'm using it at work, since in order to add a site I either have to stop, open the del.icio.us site in another window, and then cut and paste and click to add a new site to my account, or else have the forethought to just keep the del.icio.us site open in a separate window whenever I'm on the Internet.
Ah, well; nothing's perfect. And the road to ultimate online transparency is ever strewn with rocks and stones and snares.
In the meantime, the name of this application is making me hungry for dinner. Mmm... dinner!
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