Del.icio.us

I found using Del.icio.us to be fairly intuitive once I started, but I can't really imagine continuing to use it. Partially because clicking on other people who had linked to the same websites I had didn't reveal anything really of interest to me. I prefer searching based on more indexing rather than tagging since tagging seems to be somewhat haphazard.

Here's a link to my account, but I think that I'm much more likely to appreciate also being able to read content on my chosen links through Bloglines. I don't select new daily reads very often, but I'm faithful to the chosen ones. I can see the utility of a site like Del.icio.us, but not necessarily for myself.

Wikis

So far, the wiki exercise has been the hardest to figure out how to do. Here's mine, a rather barebones one that did help me figure out a few things that I could use later on. More wedding information, since that's what seems to consume all of my spare time these days.

However, I could see myself contributing to a reference desk wiki as a way to digitize the desk manual and provide a fast reference tool for when I know we have a tool for a question but can't quite remember what it is when that special question presents itself. I can also see the uses if you have to keep track of a lot of pieces of information on a topic or for a certain situation.

But this is one of those technologies that I think you have to have a need for before starting one, and that need has to be the interlocking organization of information. And I know for a fact I'd rather work on one than start one from scratch.

Where's the Line?

At what point does blogging become ridiculous? I started a blog in high school to document my personal life, a sort of more portable personal diary, with definitely better security than those blank diary locks.

Then I started this blog for the Blue 2.0 materials, I had fun doing so. Next, I decided to move my wedding planning entries to a new, wedding-only blog so my family and friends could see what was up in the planning stages (so I could actually go about the business of planning without getting forty million calls and emails to interrupt me).

Now I have to do yet another blog for my LIS 637 course, blogging about some aspect of Web 2.0 technology. Which, to me, sounds less than productive. I'm supposed to be learning about Web 2.0 and already I'm supposed to come up with a take on some technology aspect and review other blogs on the topic?

So I've decided to write a blog about blogging, because it seems redundant and sufficiently well-covered in other, legitimate blogs. My blog already seems destined for obscurity and uselessness, which seems to go against the entire point of Web 2.0 philosophy. Not to mention the defeatist attitude that is the only reaction in my mind to this assignment.

Oh well. Bring on the doom.