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!

Thing 9

Thing 9 has lots of options for library use. These tools would go great with Teens and Tweens, allowing website display of teen accomplishments in various teen programs, attractive ways of advertising teen programs on the local branch page, and even for Teens to use on the Teen Advisory Board blog or newsletter, etc. Since I used Big Huge Labs in previous Things, I wanted to try something different. I first tried to use Lazybase to create my personal database of books to read since I collect books I want to read faster than I can actually read them and since there are so many books and so little time. I followed the link easily, read up on the Lazybase site itself and tried to use it. Unfortunately, while it is easy to navigate and use, it must not have been working the 3 times I tried. I meant to try from home , but ran out of time. So I moved on to Picture trail with the above results. Lots of fun, easy to navigate, very intuitive to use. I highly reccommend it!