Week 9 & 10

Social Tagging
Personalised tags are useful for the individual but may prove a problem when we use social tags for information which will be accessed by multiple users. I like word clouds but if the concept is new or open to interpretation even in Technorati, some searches pull in too many false hits. I will need to get my head around the use of social tagging in library use as it does go against the library profession's decades long use of controlled vocabulary subject headings, thesaurus, etc

"Chip off the old blog" thought that social tagging could perhaps be used for bookmarks but I personally prefer to organise my bookmarks in folders.