Tagging and bookmarking are the topics of this weeks lesson and what fun it is, almost as fun as the game (of Tag that is). So as I was reading the activities for this week I was happy to see that we would be exploring Flickr. I have friends that use the site, I myself don’t, but I wanted to check it out. Lots of great photos and I really like photography. Warning!! Again I experienced the disappearance of time! Really! I need better time management skills or an alarm clock! Maybe both…? Out of the many fantastic pics I did narrow it down to one. Called Up and Down, quite intriguing isn’t it?
I wasn’t that impressed with del.icio.us. I did find some interesting tags when searching that I wouldn’t think of, but not that different from a search engine. I find a search engine brings more useful results. Not that I see del.icio.us in a negative light only, I can understand how it can be very useful as the search terms are social tags and subjective. I did have trouble when bookmarking a site in my account as the del.icio.us toolbar extension didn’t install properly the first time. Other then that I managed to bookmark a few things I liked.
Now I’m going to travel the world in Flickr, maybe that will hold me over for the next two weeks. Can’t wait to get started again!!!
