Saturday, August 2, 2008

Del.icio.us

What this lesson really taught me is that I'd better watch myself or I'm going to throw my computer on the floor and stomp on it. The videos took about as long to load as it took Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and playing them was pure torture. I really greatly prefer words on a page or screen.

That said, the major benefit of Del.icio.us that I can see is the ability to get to your bookmarks from any computer (especially useful at work, since bookmarks on office computers here commonly vanish). I don't believe I'd use it for research, though maybe that's just because I'm not used to it, and I'm not really interested in what other people have bookmarked. In short, it's something I'll probably not use, but it's good to know what it is--for scintillating cocktail party conversation and all that, you know.