Yeah, I guess I don't really see the point of a bookmarklet that just
duplicates the tags and descriptions provided by others...as you
say, the
abuse potential is great and I don't see what the user really gets
out of it:
they'll end up with an erratic tag library that probably won't make
sense to
them or anyone else, with descriptions that may or may not be
useful. On the
other hand, I guess that's why it's called "lazy sheep"...just
follow the
herd.
That's pretty much it, exactly. I keep a relatively well-defined tag
library - because I find it to be useful, to me. However, I've simply
run out of time trying to keep it maintained - I just want to throw
my link into del.icio.us and forget it (for now).
I should also bring up that the only purpose of del.icio.us isn't to
use the tags to find your links again (although, it should be very
important to its users) - there's also dumping your links to your
weblog every night - and tags aren't necessarily that important there.
Based upon the feedback that I've received, so far, people are
finding this bookmarklet genuinely useful. The sheer number of people
who simply click the recommended tags for each link they bookmark is
staggering - and this should help them significantly.
John Resig
http://ejohn.org/
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