Del.icio.us

I use 2 computers at home - a Dell laptop and a mac desktop. I have a Dell desktop in my office at Invest at ETHS and use any of the 3 desk computers in the Childrens' Room at EPL. I check 4 email accounts daily, have different bookmarks on different computers and spend lots of time typing in urls wherever I am. I think I'm a good candidate for a tool like del.icio.us, so I created an account.

Del.icio.us is extremely easy to set up and use - it's truly intuitive. My bookmarks include my email accounts and the sites I check regularly as well as the ones I check as the need arises (I find myself needing to refer to Knitting help much more than I'd like).

I looked at the evanstonpl account and clicked on the OneLook site that 5159 people have bookmarked. It's a really useful dictionary site but I was even more interested in looking at the history tab and seeing everyone's bookmarks for this site as well as some some of the comments in the notes tab. I looked at the tags people used which led me to a crossword tag and right to a crossword puzzle answer site that I ended up adding to my bookmarks.

I haven't wanted to check out strangers' book choices on LibraryThing but I found it really interesting to see what people had bookmarked. I could spend a lot of time browsing through these, noting the tags and discovering sites that I want to bookmark. I think the potential for using this tool for research assistance is pretty compelling