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Wednesday, 6 September 06 :: Ain't it del.icio.us?

I've recently become hooked on a website called "del.icio.us." It's an easy to use, especially with the plug-in for Firefox, site where you create your own account and then as you are surfing bookmark sites and create your own tags for them. Its all about creating your own meaning out of the web (the semantic web? look this up!), but then also hopefully sharing your information with others who also use the service. I am enjoying the social aspect of it for sure. I have added a few of my COSL collegues to my 'network' and each week I try to take time to see what they are looking at. If there is something of particular interest to me on their links I'll add it to my own. Thats the reason the site was created. But the other reason I like it is portability. I do research online on 2 main computers - my laptop at home and my desktop at work. I've found that del.icio.us is a great way to solve the problem of "What was that site I bookmarked at work (or home)? I could really use it right now."

posted by brooke at September 6, 2006 12:30 AM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.