[Web4lib] del.icio.us tags and bookmarking sites -- WHY DO IT?

[Drew, Bill]

 Imagine how useless that would be for a blind user with a browser that
reads the page out loud!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Breakall, Scott
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 1:36 PM
> 
> In addition to being an alternative to search, folksonomies are a way
> for users to add their feedback to an item's metadata.  This 
> could be a
> useful feature of a library catalog.
> 
> Back in January, Jenny Levine of The Shifted Librarian 
> created a mockup
> of a tag interface to her library's catalog (see the blog 
> entry and the
> image here
> http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/01/21/swan_ta
> gs.html).
> 
> The mockup looks similar to the del.icio.us tag cloud
> (http://del.icio.us/tag/), the Flickr Popular Tags
> (http://flickr.com/photos/tags/), the Yahoo! News Tag Soup
> (http://yahoo.theherrens.com/), etc., showing popular tags in a