Thing 13

I love the idea of having all my favorite sites accessible from any computer and I look forward to beginning rearranging the bookmarked websites I have so far. I think tagging is an extremely useful way to organize my digital resources especially when you have them scattered on different computers. Just like the video on the 23 Things site on Social Bookmarking said, it will clean up and easily index all the bookmarks you have. Right now, I find it getting more and more difficult to find the one site I need from the long list of bookmarked sites I have listed in my Favorites. I don't see any disadvantages to social bookmarking, especially becuase if you choose you can make them private. The advantages I see are learning from others in my field to see what sites they are using, and easily locating the sites I want by having them indexed. The only difficulty I can see is in the choice of tags. Being a librarian, I understand the need for controlled vaocaulary to ensure that the subject of a book will be categoriezed the same no matter what librarian enters the book. I will have to be careful and controlled in tagging my sites, but I might encounter difficulty when I search the tags others are using.