Thing Ten

I'm not impressed with the whole tagging thing. I went into some of my past blog postings and added tags, but only cuz it was part of the assignment. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I can't see myself searching blogs for certain topics. I'm following blogs for the purpose of 23 Things, but when this is over, I won't be searching on the internet for topical blogs. Next I looked into Delicious. BTW, I love the videos by Commoncraft Show. They are entertaining and helpful. So, I started with registering at the site. It took me 5 times for it to accept my registration because, I guess, I kept retyping the funky letters at the bottom incorrectly. I swear I was correct, but it kept rejecting me. And then each time the letters were harder to decipher. I'm talking letters on top of letters. What was up with that? Finally, I got registered. Needless to say by then, I was really (no, not) excited about continuing. Honestly, I don't really know what I did. Now, let me insert here, that I'm an intelligent woman, but some of this stuff we're having to do isn't intuitive and the directions on the sites sometimes leave a little to be desired. Anyway, I wanted to custom import because I didn't want all my bookmarks coming over to Delicious (which I'm not even sure would happen cuz it never explained what would happen). Well, they all came over, and I just deleted the ones I didn't want on the site. But, I'm still confused as to why when I click on the Delicious bookmarks button on my toolbar, a list of all my favorites appears on the left side of my screen. But when I log into the site, only the ones I wanted to stay appear. I've got to be honest; I don't really care enough to find out because I can't see the use for this. Maybe cuz I don't bookmark a bazillion sites. I did go in and tag my saved bookmarks just so I could say I did it. Wow, I sound like I'm in a yucky mood, but really I'm not. I guess I'm simply underawed (if that isn't a word, it should be!) by Delicious. But, to end on a more positive note -- I will say it's good to be aware of what's out there so that we can assist patrons. I don't have to like something to be able to help.