"Libraries gave us power" (Manic Street Preachers; Song: A design for life; Album: Everything must go)

I was quite surprised at how many libraries were currently using web 2.0 tools; so it was really interesting to look at the Directory and explore the way they were using them. There were a number of Delicious users so it was good to get a feel of what resources they were promoting to their readers. By looking it from a work perspective I can now see why Delicious would be a useful tool to use; as it is a quick way of gathering together useful resources for readers that can easily be searched via the tag facility.

The other beauty of it is that it would be so easy to set up for readers to use; the time would just be spent in gathering together all the websites etc that you felt you should bookmark; and making sure that they were up to date in the future and to keep adding so that it stayed interesting.

I found the networking facility straight forward and added the VHL and a fellow 23 thinger to my network, and it was good that it kept these under a separate section so that they didn't just appear under your own bookmarks. It was also quite interesting to see what other colleagues had bookmarked.

"And I lost my page. Again" (The Strokes; Song: Trying your luck ; Album: Is this it)

Thanks to having already set up the Yahoo account for Flickr the first step of signing up was made easy. Downloading the 'Bookmarklet" was also a good move as it made the process of adding any bookmarks I wanted quick and simple. Delicious seemed very intuitive to use. Tagging was especially very straight forward with all the relevant tags already appearing at the bottom of the screen and then just selecting what you wanted to add to your bookmark.

I'm not yet convinced of how useful I will find Delicious; it didn't immediately grab me in the way that some of the other web 2.0 tools we have tried have. As far as accessing my bookmarks go I have them neatly grouped under different headings in my favourites on my home laptop and at work I tend to use my favourites or my most frequently used ones are on my iGoogle start page. I don't tend to need my work ones at home or vice versa, or just tend to search for the relevant website I want via a search engine if I can't remember it off the top of my head.

I did like the 'Explore Tags' feature though, where you could look for other topics that were of interest to you, and so potentially discover other websites you didn't know existed or articles on topics of interest, so I'll have a play around on this a bit more.