Should I begin this post by saying that I hate Del.icio.us because I can never remember where the periods go? The word folksonomy bothers me too, but that’s just because it sounds like an uncomfortable medical procedure (I’d like to keep my folk right where it is, thank you). Put these two together and you have why my “exploration” paused after wikis.
If you’ve read any of my other posts (not that I would expect you to), you’ll have realized that while I’m quite familiar with most of these web 2.0 gizmos, I’m pretty skeptical of them. Same goes for delicious and tagging stuff. I see why they’re useful, and I did like the San Mateo dewey categorization of websites. It would be nice to have our system recommended sites on delicious (no . in there, sorry, can’t do it), as it would make them much easier to find and use and eliminate some of the cross-postings. The interface would need some work before we could do that though, since you have to be familiar with web navigation in order to make it work. I’ll be interested to see how these things evolve into their next iterations…
You will be pleased to learn that you no longer need to put periods in between the letters in delicious.
http://delicious.com/ will now get you where you want to go.