Discovery Exercise #13

First, I must say that I don't really bookmark pages that often. I guess I have bookmarked a few things in the past, but it may be because the traditional way is so cluttered and unorganized I just quit using them altogether. I tend to want to keep articles that I have found on the Net for future reference -- since urls disappear constantly, particularly if it's a news story. I've been using Furl for that purpose. It's similar to Delicious in the fact that you can categorize and tag things you have saved, and then make them public so that others can find articles that you have saved.

Having said all that, I think that Delicious could be something I might use. I can definitely recommend it to my wife. As a middle school science teacher, she is constantly bookmarking webpages that she finds that have helpful information (similar to the hypothetical math teacher in the Common Craft video). Currently, she has a enormous list of bookmarks in no particular order, and I'm sure Delicious could make it easier to find the sites she needs. Plus, the bookmarks are "portable" since they are accessed from a website instead of one particular computer.

I was thinking that a departmental or branch account could be useful, as staff could add sites that are used often with their own tags. This could then be used to complement existing Recommended Websites links when helping customers. Unlike the official JPL link pages, any staff could add pages and tags to the group account for use.