Del.icio.us

So, I was using the tags when I tried out Flikr and added tags to books on Librarything. I felt that I already understood these concepts and how to use them. But del.icio.us, seems to have a laserpoint focus on this. I found a lot more resources for a few more hard to locate sources for rarer media, like comic books, simply through tags. Very good, easy to use, and fun. I will probably continue to use my account when this project is done.

Rollyo

I created a searchroll for the Washington Capitals (you know, the hockey team {you know, the sport played with sticks on ice}). I can see the potential for this in researching something where there is a big potential of "distracting" information. For instance, since I used so many general sites in my searchroll as well as specific sites, searching for something as general as trades brought up all kinds of news and not just things pertaining to hockey. Whereas, searching for the Stanley Cup brought up all kinds of very current stories on the race for the cup, rather than a bunch of sites about the history of the cup. So, the more specific the better, I'd say