Thing 11: Tag and Del.icio.us

Thing 11 was interesting but I don't know how much I will use Del.icio.us. For Tags I have already been entering tag in all my 23 Things and will continue to do so. Also I have used tags before and even on other site with 23 things like Flickr I have added tags. Regarding Del.icio.us it was really easy to set up and install. However, I don't know really when I would use it. Majority of my favorite websites I have already saved to my favorite list and most of them are fanfic sites which unless I have a lot of time on my hands the only time I have in which to read is when I am on my own personal computer. Also, anything else is just basic websites like msn for email or Youtube. I do think that Del.icio.us is great for students especially if they are doing research which is mentioned in Thing 10. While on your own Del.icio.us page it is interesting to look at what other people have said about the websites I had tagged and the amount of people that have tagged them also. In all I find Del.icio.us to be interesting however it is not reasonable for regular reference use because you first have to load your Del.icio.us page then find the certain tag that you need while bookmarks on Mozilla Firefox are more handy and faster so that the patron doesn't have to wait as long for their information.

Thing 3: RSS

Of all the things, that I have learned, and just let me remind you I am on thing 3 and so far all the things beside thing 2 have been really interesting; however RSS feeds has been the most interesting and exciting Thing so far. I feel like I have finally learned something that I can implement throughout my life. The hardest part being finding all the RSS feeds I want to add and realizing that there has to be a limit to how much I can or should want to add, because really I can only read so much a day. However, besides all that I found setting up an aggregator to be relatively easy. I set up an aggregator through Google Reader, which I was happy that I did, as I was already familiar with how Google is set up. Meaning that I have used Google calendar extensively and because my blog is also through Google I thought in the end that it would be easier having all these items in the same location so to speak.

What I love about Google Reader, which is really strong words for a program that I only learned about yesterday, is that right away it asked showed me different bundles of RSS feeds that I could belong to. For example, they have the bundle called FUN, which included You Tube Most Viewed, Quotes of the Day, The Onion, and three others. And even thought I deleted the rest of what was in that bundle including You Tube because all the main videos were of a guy being slashed by another skater during a hockey game and if that is the kind of videos You Tube viewers like then I don't think I want to know what they like every day. However, I am getting off topic Google also had different bundles like News and Sports, which again I did not subscribe to but liked that I had the chance to. Also, the next RSS feed it tried to get me to subscribe to was The Form which I thought was really cool and then I wondered how they knew I wanted to subscribe to The Form; oh well. Adding different blogs was made easy and finally making my Google Reader all neat and organized by putting them into subfolders made me realize that Google Reader Rocks and that I need to find a lot more RSS feeds.