Delicious

I have yet to explore the full extent of Delicious's potential. Harvesting the collective intelligence or "wisdom of the crowds" on the Web is certainly an intriguing and compelling concept. At first glance, the Delicious site didn't seem very intutitive, so the help menus came in handy.

The whole social tagging folksonomy concept marks a new breakthrough in "cataloging" electronic records, one which seems quite daunting, given the unique perceptions and interpretations individuals might have in assigning tags to objects, people, ideas, etc. I was surprised that the Delicious tags were restricted to one-word terms.

I would like to explore using Delicious as a research tool and compare how this differs from, say, searching electronic discussion groups and blogs. There is quite a bit of potential in this social bookmarking resource, yet the challenge still lies in separating the proverbial chaff from the wheat.