My, That Looks Del.icio.us

Having looked into it just a little, I can see the obvious benefits of having a central place for my tags. There have been times when I've been on my home computer and wanted to access a work-related site only to have to search from scratch to find it again. It is a good means of pooling resources and picking the brains of others with similar interests. There is no need for everybody who enters a new territory to make his own map.

Tagging in the Clouds

I find the concept of tagging interesting, but I haven't used it in searches enough to judge its usefulness. I searched Great War, an era of history I'm interested in, and found a large tag cloud (18,000 hits) for an uncommon name for World War One.

I'm interested in how an author's experience in the trenches effected his writing and his moral outlook. Tolkien is one of my favorites, but I didn't find him through the tags. I found him the old fashioned way. Most of the tags led me to writers relating their direct experiences of the War. I'll practice some more and see if I can get better at using tags.