Thing 14

My Delicious username is dclibrarymius. I enjoyed playing with Delicious, but I doubt it will increase my productivity. I decided to explore chess once again and was led to Jen Shahahde 's page and her recent work on Marcel Duchamp. For most of my bookmarks, I was part of a small community. Often fewer than a dozen people had tagged the pages I found. I think the key to delicious is herding and I prefer to stray from the beaten path. I am concerned that social bookmarking that prizes popularity and trendiness will lead to less intellectual diversity. I chose to keep my bookmarks public even when some pages included nudity. I think the "do not share" option is a cop-out. If social networking is to promote communities with shared affinities, contributors have to make a commitment to share the paths they explore: the dead ends, the dark alleys and the open highway that everyone can see. Profiles appear somewhat manufactured for some of the pages that I looked at. Some folks seem quite content to celebrate the homogeneity to which they subscribe or with which they would like to be associated. Social networks should be honest, complex networks.