Del.ico.us #13

I like the idea of tagging websites because when you are searching you no longer have to rely on the complex algorithms that search engines use to determine the relavency of the search order. Del.ico.us is great in that each user becomes, as was mentioned in the introductory video, a filter or middle man for all of the other users in the virtual community. It is truly a cooperative way of gathering and deceminating resources. I did some fun searches for books and was surprised at my findings. The most popular shared site was actually Librarything, which I thought was exciting because it shows that the tools and programs that we are learning are not these obscure programs. I was also surprised to find a lot of sites that were good for finding recomendations for your next book to read, I could have used those sites a few months ago!! The search also found a lot of sites that have free books to be looked at online. I see this as promising for schools that might not have the resources to purchase these books for all of their students, but given good enough internet access, could have these titles available for their students. Out of print books are suddenly available too.

This is a really cool tool that deserves more time to be explored (I feel like I am saying this about most of these "things")!