the post about tagging

My delicious site is up: http://del.icio.us/poet13. I do wish I'd known about this a year ago, my poor lap top is laguishing, disconnected from the world at large ("the internet") since last december and full of my favorites from the 4 years previous. It's sad really and will have to be remedied. We shall get there, this is much like my librarything account which has gone un updated since Febuary or so...very sad that.
I think that as much as we need to figure out ways to make tools like del.icio.us useful for library staff use we would do well to get patrons into it. As I see it this could easily fill a major gap in using public terminals: the inability to quickly and easily save where a person has been browsing. I like it.
In the Library Journal articule, there was a bit about using a delicious page to help with a school topic we might know is being covered as well as to keep people us on evens which could be used both for library events as well as local news, a little word of mouth via technology. Thats sort of what makes the tagging thing sensible, its organic, it's a website and the internet, techie-mumbo-jumbo, but its also like show-and-tell just blown to a giant scale if you want that much information.
And I'm now having found memories of ridiculous glee the first time I looked at the subject cloud in my librarything.