Thing 10: Tags & Delicious

I practiced tagging a couple of my blogger blogs and it was very easy. If I were to blog several times a day or over a long period of time tagging my entries would be necessary for keeping up. While Blogger's methodology is a little different from Flickr's methodology, both are intuitive and useful.

Before exploring Delicious, I wasn't too sure it would be useful to me, since I don't bother to use the bookmark function of my browser. However, exploring other people's bookmarks by tag is fascinating and can be useful in finding sites that I might have otherwise overlooked. I like using Delicious as a research tool, although I don't see myself signing up and creating my own tagged bookmarks.

Learning about tag clouds was also very useful. Until now, I always found those spaces of words of varying size rather blinding, annoying, and in the way. Now that I understand that the size and boldness of a word is an indication of the popularity of that tag, the usefulness & organization is suddenly apparent. 3 cheers for NEFLIN's 23 Things: transforming the annoying into the useful one lesson at a time!