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posted by [identity profile] greensilver.livejournal.com at 05:58pm on 04/01/2006
This was helpful - not just for the technical bits, but because it cleared up a few things I've been wondering about del.icio.us ... what people use it for, the ways in which they use it. (I just made a post about recs and del.icio.us here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/greensilver/269744.html) - your timing couldn't have been better. *g*)
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 06:06pm on 04/01/2006
well, to answer one of your questions in that post - and i need to go back and read it carefully again - BUT i use blurbs because anything i bookmark in delicious i consider a rec. not necessarily a why you should read this rec, but a i-liked-this-story-i-think-it's-good rec. and i use blurbs instead of actual recs for myself - it helps me remember what story is what.

otherwise i spend half an hour trying to find that one story where john sheppard threw major lorne and a goat out of an airplane at the air force academy and failing miserably because i didn't pick a distinctive enough pull quote.
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posted by [identity profile] greensilver.livejournal.com at 06:21pm on 04/01/2006
... is there really a story where Sheppard threw Lorne and a goat out of an airplane? *g*

That makes sense (your response, that is). I looked at del.icio.us and thought, "hey, that's a really handy way for a lazy person like me to do fic recs," and it was only after I started surfing around that I realized what it's primarily for.

My question to you is, how important is tag uniformity? I got around the no-spaces rule by inserting periods between words, because I originally had tags like KC and SN, and at a glance, those didn't immediately mean Kitchen Confidential and Sports Night to me. But if people are more likely to use KC and SN or even kitchenconfidential and sportsnight - well, I'm curious as to whether or not it actually matters if my tags are the same as everyone else's, since it doesn't seem like tags are surfable the way URLs are.
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posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 07:07pm on 04/01/2006
YES, and it's a great fucking story. the beatings will continue until morale improves (http://www.livejournal.com/community/sga_flashfic/181367.html) by [livejournal.com profile] smittywing.

tag uniformity. well. i'm writing my thesis on how self-chosen communities police user-developed folksonomies (like tags on del.icio.us) into having semi-controlled vocabularies. so tag uniformity is not ... important to me, but it is interesting to me, if that makes sense. i wish i could get people to tag uniformly because i think it's easier to find things that way, since tags on del.icio.us *are* surfable. (click on one of your tags. at the top, there should be a couple of links that all, popular, recommendations - those let you surf tags like urls.) i use "kc" for kitchen confidential; i use sportsnight (one word) for sports night. it's my choice, but i try to see how other people have tagged things in the fandom before i create, say, new tags for pairings or fandoms.

does that help?
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posted by [identity profile] greensilver.livejournal.com at 07:09pm on 04/01/2006
Ooh. To both a) the fic and b) tags being surfable. That does help.
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