Thursday, June 12, 2008
Delicious---in lots of ways
I will set up a Delicious account, but I'm so excited about the site, I need to write now!!! I found fascinating links, tags, and unexpected use of the same words. I get used to our peculiar English language that uses the same word in so many ways, and we depend on context to sort out what the word means. When the word appears simply as a Tag, there is no context, so we are left with what my nephew calls the "promiscuous linking" of the Web. But, what fun that is! Connections I've never thought of appear on the screen, and lead down diverging paths. When I used the search term "library" in Delicious, I had 439,298 entries. Of the first ten hits, 5 were Web design or Javascript sites, 4 were virtual library sites, and the final one was the Library of Congress. Using the same term in Google, I had 8200,000,000 hits, with only one of the first ten a virtual library, the rest were physical libraries. What a difference! And all those interesting paths to follow. I could spend a lot more time than I have going exploring.
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