Susan's Musings

Ooohh - Delicious - I love tagging - why? Because tagging makes sense to the average user. I love the LC Subject headings - but Cookery? Come on.

LC is also so slow to change or to adapt to common everyday terminology it is frustrating.Tagging can solve that issue - it isn't about indexing or cataloguing something perfectly, but just good enough. I really like the way that Solinet instructor Russell Palmer makes use of Delicious bookmarks - he provides a grouping of links for each of his sessions so that people can easily access them after the online sessions - here is a link to his main Delicious page. He has some great links there.

I think you are going to see a huge amount of research into the concept of online language, semiotics and sociolinguistics as it applies to the online environment.