I have been reading up on social bookmarking in Will Richardson's book. I really didn't think there was anything special about social bookmarking, but now I can see some of the benefits. I am not the most organized person out there and when I see a page on the internet I simpy select favourites and then add. No one had told me any other way to do it. Now, I have hundreds of favourites and sometimes I can't find them. Like just before I did this blog, I couldn't find the site under my favourites. Maybe my mind is just not working right....or there's that organizational problem again!
According to Richardson there are over 10 billion pages of we information up right now and there are millions being added each year. (p.89).With social bookmarking you can keep you favourites organized and share them with others. You can find these bookmarks any time you are on the internet and not just from your home computer. I like the idea of putting tags and annotations to help keep them together.
Richardson says that it "creates your own community of researchers that is gathering information for you."(p.89). I am looking forward to sharing and seeing other bookmarks for the social bookmarking.
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