My first lesson learned was that it's reeeeeaaaallly easy to get sucked into surfing from just about any of the tags on the 27Things site. My ramblings took me to a Guinness Brownies recipe and some climate change links. Curiously, the recipe didn't have "guinness" as a tag.
So that leads to my second lesson, which is that catalogers make really great taggers. The rest of us probably stink at it, which is not to say that de.licio.us isn't a highly useful site. But when I think about our catalog being opened up to patron tags, I have to wonder. It would be great to have a tagged version of the catalog, but I have a hard time seeing them integrated into one system. Not only does there need to be some sort of subject control, there also has to be some sort of control to prevent profanity from infiltrating the system.
I wonder how de.licio.us prevents profanity, or maybe it doesn't. I tried searching on a few words, and on 'porn' and came up with a baffling array of sites - some seemingly porn and some that were sort of academic-ish blogs about porn.
So if we had an open tagging of our catalog, how would we deal with this? Anyway, it seems like a great tool if you are spending a lot of time online.
I think this is my better side
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Ha, bored teenagers spamming the library catalog with four-letter-word tags. I hadn't ever thought about that. =)
I wonder what Amazon's profanity policy is. They must run into the same sort of problem with their tags and reviews.
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