Tagging, Del.icio.us

I am a tagging virgin.

No, wait, I think I put in some tags on Flickr.

I wasn't about to go back through years of journal entries to do it, which has some drawbacks, to be sure. But I did link my photography and writing in my Memories.

Now I really want to read the Guy Kawasaki blog entry that Kathleen Gilroy refers to in "Learning 2.0 and Del.icio.us." The one that features, 'Don't Worry, Be Crappy.' Except, of course, that I can't find it on his blog. Cause, you know, he doesn't tag, and what tag would he slap on that, anyway? And I'm sure not looking up her del.icio.us account to find out if it's really listed there.

I have never used del.icio.us, although I have lots of friends who do. They use del.icio.us for fannish links, and if I wanted people to know what I was reading, I'd put it in my journal. When I was thinking about a laptop, one pal even urged me to buy a Mac so I could scan in the barcodes of my books to LibraryThing [which is not del.icio.us, of course, but bookily related]. Unfortunately, I'm the only librarian in the Known World who doesn't collect books.

The Magic Middle for people who can filter information for you . . . hmm. There's an interesting concept all by itself. Like the rest of life, it's all about choosing your filters.