Thing 11: Social tagging and search

I did a very basic search on the term 'survivor'. I was interested to see what wildly varying results I got, and I wasn't disappointed.
Delicious, Google, Zuula and Kartoo focused on the TV series, a music group, and a clip of that name.
Murdoch Uni catalogue had only 4 titles - related to the surviving partner and their needs, and the UQ catalogue had 119 results with a smattering of fiction & non-fiction.
CiteUlike had a medical focus, and I couldn't get Connotea to work for me.
I found Kartoo quite disconcerting = I'm obviously not as visual a person as other people, although maybe if would grow on me given time :)

Thing 12 - delicious.com

I'd heard quite a lot about delicious over the last year, but it all seemed a bit too hard when I was just working with my bookmarks on my home PC. Then when I started at Murdoch I knew it would be worth checking out - so I was pleased to find it was one of the Things.

After an initial glitch (which was my fault) I found the set-up very simple and the different methods of tagging quite easy - although I can see that I already want to modify some of the tags that were imported. And I'm guessing that to make them useful setting up more of the tag bundles would be a good idea.

After adding Kate to my network I found my husband and added him also. I need to explore the social side a little more as at this stage I'm simply seeing delicious as a way to share my bookmarks at home and work. But I do think that (given time to explore) it will be much more than this.