Delicious

Granny Smith apple. D'oh! Golden Delicious. Says right there.

by fortinbras

I didn't know what Delicious was until I looked at it for Cam23 today. I kept seeing it mentioned as a bookmark option every time I did a Copac search. Now I understand that a catalogue record can be bookmarked onto a Delicious account for future reference without having to go into Copac and perform the search again.

I checked out Emma Coonan's bookmarks and found a large variety, mostly professional but some personal. The knitting patterns and recipes are a good example of one of the uses of Delicious as an electronic scrapbook of "cut out and keep" things to try at a later date, far better than a box filled with scraps of pages torn from magazines. If you like what you've made you can share the pattern/recipe with others and if you don't you can just delete it. Miss Crail found the same thing useful for all those links to websites you can explore when you have more time. As she points out, an electronic desktop has infinitely more room than a wooden one.

I also looked at the Judge Business School's bookmarks. I can see how this would be useful for students as it filters out some of the vast array of information on the Web. Having a one-stop shop with links to the most relevant and recommended websites in that subject area will help broaden their research and introduce them to things they wouldn't otherwise have discovered without trawling through Google et al. If you can get suggestions from academics and other teaching staff, so much the better.

The tagging element is excellent as you can see the most used tags but also do a search to find other relevant ones. It's also helpful to know how many people have saved a website, although popularity isn't always the best indicator of accuracy.