This week's topic was Delicious - I've used it before, both on my own and with the Library's Best Websites, so I was fairly familiar with how it works.
I can think of a few advantages of using Delicious for bookmarks:
1. They're "in the cloud", meaning hosted on the internet instead of on a specific computer, so if your home computer is eaten by the tech gremlins, you still have your list of favourite sites.
2. They're easy to share with others. I admit I don't use this feature much, but I can think of times when it would be nice - and useful for the library (links to book trailers, author sites, and so on for book clubs, maybe?).
3. If you use Firefox for your browser (like I do), there's a plugin that lets you put your delicious bookmarks on a toolbar in your browser window. So every time I open a browser window, I have buttons that take me to my daily webcomics, to facebook, to my e-learning website, and so on. Honestly, that feature is pretty much the only reason I use Delicious.
What about disadvantages? Well I could get into the whole folksonomy vs. controlled vocabulary debate...but I won't. ;) In my opinion, the main disadvantage with a site like Delicious is that your lists of links quickly become unwieldy. Yes, you can sort by tags and other options, but I never seem to find the time to clean out the links that are no longer relevant. Hopefully the library is better at spring cleaning than I am!
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