Week 5 - Tagging, Social Bookmarking & Folksonomies

Activity #1

I searched for vegetarin slow cooker in del.icio.us and the first thought when I saw the results was that it looked more organized and easier to read. It also shows you the most popular searches saved by others which I found helpful. I looked at those results first than the ones with only 1 or 2 saved by others. The only funny and confusing part of the del.icio.us search was the following result: "Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup Recipe - Split Pea Soup with Ham Hocks and Carrots". It's obviously not a vegetarian recipe but the funny thing is it had the most saves by people.

When I searched Google for the same subject it gave me everything including books available to purchase on Amazon.com. Normally that would be fine but I wasn't interested in purchasing a vegetarian slow cooker recipe book but rather I wanted to find recipes online.

Activity #2

Here's the link to my del.icio.us favourites:

http://del.icio.us/annpearce

Activity #3

Here's the link to a great photo on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pierrepierrepierre/437296360/

Activity #4

I installed the del.icio.us buttons on my browser toolbar and find it very helpful.

I'm also very grateful for the catch up weeks. I'm enjoying working on these assignments but I find it hard to concentrate on it when you're interrupted by the phone, questions etc... at work.