Correct URL for social bookmarking site
In the previous post I mentioned that I'm interested in social bookmarking and tagging and mentioned a prominent site that does this. I got the spelling of the URL wrong, however, so I'm putting a correct link here. The site is: http://del.icio.us/
Check it out and let me know what you think. If you already understand how this site works, feel free to add a brief explanation as a comment. This appears to be a rapidly growing phenomenon.
posted by Lisa Ede @ 9:31 AM
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Hi, Lisa--
Once you set up an account on del.icio.us, you can save webpages there: it's something like a web-based bookmarking feature. You'll also be prompted to create "tags" for each site you save, which will enable you to later find sites with the same tag (for example, I have saved a number of websites that deal with blogging and can select that tag from my page on del.icio.us to view all the sites with that tag: http://del.icio.us/strickland/blogging)
In addition to this "folksonomy" way of classifying the information, you are also able to view who has also saved a given site to del.icio.us. Each entry on my del.icio.us page includes a link indicating how many other people have saved that site. If I click on that link, I can see a list of who has saved it, and I can view other sites that they've saved (because they may also be of interest to me).
Like you, I'm fascinated by blogging. You may already know that a number of comp/rhet bloggers are out there; here's a list of comp/rhet blogging resources and bloggers assembled by Derek Mueller, a doctoral student at Syracuse: http://ccr.syr.edu/~dmueller/blogs.html"
Hope to meet up with you more often in the blogosphere.
Hi Donna,
Thanks very much for this thoughtful and helpful response. I really appreciate it.
I'm especially grateful for the comp/rhet blogging resources and blogger infor as I and a student will be talking about blogging at an upcoming New Research Summit at the University of Oreogn. If you're interested in this Summit, just scroll down to an earlier entry that has links to its web site.
Again, thanks!
Lisa
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