Things #13 and #14: Tagging, Del.icio.us and Technorati

So much valuable info is out there in those tens of millions of blogs if only you can find it. One thing I learned from these assignments was that Technorati, the chief blog search engine, lets me narrow down my search for what is going to be entertaining or helpful to me by the use of tags, or keywords without a control list. And I can tag my own entries for sharing and retrieving. As for Del.icio.us, a social bookmarking tool, the podcast from the Otter Group was the perfect introduction to it, showing how you don't have to be a researcher or academic to make it work for you. One thing on Del.icio.us can lead you to another and another and another, and back to you. I can definitely see having an account with Del.icio.us.