Analyzing bookmark tags

posted in: inspiration by Michael Una on November 17, 2008

I’ve been using the bookmarking tool Del.icio.us for a few years now, and today I dug through some of the tags I’ve been using. Some interesting patterns arise, especially in examining the language I use to describe things on the internet.



Here’s my tag cloud:



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Awesome- Anything I find online that could be described as “awesome” gets filed here. A few highlights:








NOTCOT at GLOW: EX-SE-08 Shih Chieh Huang from Jean Aw on Vimeo.





Another tag I use is buildme, which is used for filing away things that I want to build or incorporate into a project, or someone else’s project that I want to crib from. Some examples:










Projectstuff has links to raw materials and suppliers for the more rare or esoteric items that I might want to use some day.










Then I have a Wishlist, which I refer to around my birthday and Christmas when people ask me what I want. It’s mostly books, dvds and t-shirts, with the occasional odd electronic item.






What does it all mean? I guess it’s interesting to see all of my interest laid out in such a specific way. There are a few personal or social items in there, but the majority of the bookmarks pertain to my art/music interests and ideas. It makes me want to somehow gather them all into a digital sketchbook of sorts, then publish it into some kind of coffee table book, just for me.

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