Delicious?

Well I finally got on to tagging. A few quirks to it. I worked out the hard way that it won't take two word tags, as my cloud looked like a dog's breakfast (now that would be delicious).
I guess that rules out attaching LCSH headings!! Once over that hurdle the process of tagging sites was easy. However adding it the blog was not easy at all. Where is the widget??? Where is the chiclet??? I didn't know what a widget was last week and now I feel like dashing off a letter of complaint pointing out my right to be provided with one. Library Thing was a breeze. I won't tell you how many times I tried to get that little cloud to cooperate. The fonts were wrong / it wasn't visible at all / it was too big / it was wrapping around. Even now (look over to the right) there are annoying underlinings that I can't get rid of and are ruining the whole feng shui of my blog.

I certainly think the idea of having portable favourites is very handy. However, I'm not so sure about the the "social networking" aspects. I'm not that interested in knowing what other people's bookmarks are - their books yes - their bookmarks, not so much so.
Also if I look at other people's tags will that always be useful - what I mean by one tag, won't be what you mean by it - control without a controlled vocabulary?

OK, it's about browsing and discovery and I need to loosen up. As the light and breezy Delicious Help information advises:
If you don't get it right away, that's OK -- you don't have to. Tagging is pretty intuitive and can take some practice to fully understand. Try it and experiment a bit! There are no wrong tags.
Now that attitude wouldn't get you a Distinction in Bibliographic Organisation 101.