Thursday, September 21, 2006

Gardening is so Del.icio.us

Discovery exercise #13: Tagging, folksomonies & social bookmarking in Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us is a pretty cool tool. Of course, I'm excited about any tool that can help me find new information about my hobbies. Naturally, I used Del.icio.us to find popular sites on, you guessed it, "square foot gardening," and my search was rewarded with a link to a simple -- but very neat-o! -- tool for plotting out a garden. Using Del.icio.us proved much more fruitful in yielding sites with "real gardener appeal" than, say, doing a Google or Yahoo seach. And the comments were helpful in determining what to expect of the site before even clicking on a link. Nice.