This one's easy - I've been using Del.icio.us for months. I started because I have massive quantities of bookmarks and different ones at home than work. I'm not finished copying them to Del.icio.us yet, but already, it helps with portability.
And, I appreciate other folks' tags. I use them when I can, but I'm trying to control the proliferation of synonyms on my Del.icio.us pages. I also deliberately label a few personal links with tags that should be meaningless to others, e.g. my Bloglines account.
What I want now is the software to make clouds. I want to be able to create visual relationships between terms, not just size differences. For example, http://www.literature-map.com/ lets you see how similar two authors are. That would be brilliant in the catalog! But, simple tagging would be a start. I think the combination of cataloging and tagging would build on the strengths and compensate for the deficiencies of both. Cataloging resolves ambiguity. Tagging adds paths of access and enriches the meaningfullness of official subjects.
A record of the experiences of a Y2K brain in a Web 2.0 world. Or, more prosaically, the posts I needed to complete VBPL's Learning 2.0 training. And the experiences I'm building on that training.
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