As I was looking at Del.icio.us, I was thinking about the issue of authority and that although letting average people organize information is a good thing, it can create problems. Technorati has come up with an interesting way to deal with this by rating authority of different blogs/bloggers by the number of websites that they are linked to. Interesting, but I don't think this entirely solves the problem because how is the authority of web pages being decided? It will be intriguing to see how these problems work themselves out over the coming years.
Using both Technorati and Del.icio.us' feature of popular materials on the internet is a good tool for librarians. It is important for us to keep up with what is current and contemporary not just in the physical world, but the virtual one as well.
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