Delicious

Again I was late jumping on this bandwagon but now that I have I think it's the best thing since sliced bread. I actually started my Delicious account prior to getting to this task in 23 Things so that made life easier. The hardest part about Delicious is remembering to click the Delicious tag button instead of bookmarking in the browser! I am currently in the process of making sure my bookmarks from home and at work find their way into Delicious. Delicious is a tool which I think has great potentials for libraries and is fabulous for individuals. Who wouldn't like the freedom it provides with your bookmarks. No longer is it necessary to email or remember a URL for bookmarking from 1 PC to the next. It also allows someone to share their favourites with their friends or the world at large but also allows a user to keep private a favourite it might be best no one knows about. How good is that! Library wise it's an opportunity to allow users to participate in the provision of resources that are made available to them. We can't possibily know all the good URLs related to a particular subject but our users may be experts in certain areas and this allows them to share their 'favourites' with everyone. One thing though, and it's an issue for a lot of the web 2.0 tools, what happens if Delicious 'disappears' - everyone with Delicious accounts then loose their tags and chaos ensues or tag rage becomes a common phenomenon? Or an I just being pessimistic airing that thought?