Less than del.icio.us

Have let other things take up my time than Quest 6, but I guess now I had better move forward.

Ho hum at this point with del.icio.us. Was underwhelmed with it during the TechTracks class taught by SCSL staff. Remain underwhelmed.

Part of it is that I am tired of spending as much of the day as I do in front of a computer. I have recently been working to be less plugged in, and I'm enjoying it.

Part of me says that computer technology that isn't seamless and obvious--that requires the watching of an extremely boring video--fundamentally has something wrong with it.

Another part of me is just sick of bells and whistles when I don't see any immediate benefit to me, because, as always, it is about me. [Isn't that really what socially networking is all about: me?]

I have never used bookmarks that much. I can see the benefits of del.icio.us if I used them a lot, but I don't. Just remember urls of places I visit all the time. Use search engines otherwise with a good keyword strategy. Many sites I use only to answer a specific reference question. How likely is it that I'll ever get that question again? And if I do, the site I used the first time might not give the best answer the second time.

The September 15th LJ article called "Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us" makes me feel like someone from Missouri: Show Me! I'll get on board if I see CCPL has a plan to use tagging--I'll enthusiastically get on board if the plan makes sense to me.

In the meantime, I don't find cloud tags much more than a random curiousity: A way to encourage procrastination by providing lots of diversions. I don't need any encouragement in that area.

Having said all this, the next time I have a topic to research, perhaps I'll make use of del.icio.us. But as I write this, I am secretly hoping that another option will appear that has more appeal to me.