I set up a delicious account and imported all remotely interesting saved bookmarks from my Internet Explorer. Tagging them is a bit strange because what's obviously relevant to one person is completely different to another. Take the TED talks website for example, which has been saved over 43,800 times (unsurprisingly because its fantastic). Some people get all pragmatic about the formal aspects, tagging things like "conference" and "speeches", some call it "education", whereas other users tag it simply "psychology". I guess it is the mere quantity of users that create any kind of order in this ever-expansive mass of tags...
I think delicious would be beneficial to categorising sites relating to more specific topics, like shopping for a specific product, or looking for a particular field of psychology, because the tags would be like a more complex way of organising than putting them in folders in your Browser's "Favourites" bar. They can be in multiple folders, so to speak.
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Well done! I like your title for this :-)
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