Library Thing

Library Thing has got to be the greatest site of all time. It is so easy to use! Please scope out my catalog anytime - I mostly read mystery & history. The cataloging via tags is new to me; I am used to looking at regular bib records all day so it may take a bit of getting used to... I definitely see the need to be consistent with my tags, for my own ease of use as well for facilitating searches by other Library Thing users. The best part is peeking at other people's catalogs!

Schadenfreude of tagging, technorati, geeks & stars

I viewed the Geeks on Tour site but did not find the labeling aka tagging section real helpful on the HOW behind it. I found a more academically-minded cite site (sorry) entitled CITEULIKE. This organizes papers via tags; as an ILLer, it may help me locate some grey literature. Anyhow, you can see that I have tagged this post with LOTS of labels; also changed my blog settings so all labels appear as a separate sidebar as well as just beneath the body of the post.

I would rather not blog about a hobby (boring!) but I will just briefly mention the recent preponderance of celebrity Schadenfreude.
It seems that people are taking more and more pleasure in the misfortunes of others lately, especially current movie/pop stars. Don't you think that's sad & bad?! Anyhow, I hope someone comments on the many tags I chose for this post! I commented on another BCL staffer's labeling but looks like most are forgetting to assign tags to their posts.

I also got this semi-rant claimed via Technorati! Once I registered to CLAIM my Blog, I copied/inserted the necessary code in the Edit HTML screen - easy! Then I edited all my prior posts so that they would have the Technorati Faves icon, too.

del.icio.us certainly is

I've always been a mega-bookmarker, but like most nerds I rarely went back because I could not find the good stuff. Not to mention the fact that I had different favorites on my home computer, library computer, and laptop. Thus, I am an instant fan of del.icio.us, because tagging to just one place makes a lot more sense to me.
I have already mentioned how much it appeals to me to get other people to do my research for me. I had stumbled across a few librarians' websites and/or del.icio.us accounts of interest to me, and subsequently set them up to feed into my newsreader. However, the domino effect of viewing so many del.icio.us networks of mutual interest (and subsequently RSSing them) has made this my new guilty pleasure. It's so easy (the new Firefox toolbar install sure beats IE) and so fun to navigate around del.icio.us that I almost feel like a really nosy neighbor...