Indexing blog posts

For the past couple of years, I've been using a couple of del.icio.us accounts to index blog posts in this blog and in the blog for the reference staff at the library at Baruch College, where I am an information services librarian. Just today, as I was using del.icio.us to bookmark some recent posts in our reference blog (595 posts as of today), was struck by how many topics my colleagues and I have managed to cover since the blog was launched in September 2004. To see for yourself, check out this view of the del.icio.us tags bundled into rough categories.

For any catalogers out there, please overlook my rather folksy attempts at creating a taxonomy of blog posts. Hey, "folksy"..."taxonomy"...whaddya know, I made a folksonomy! (For an insightful discussion of what a folksonomy really is, see "The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging," a post by Ellyssa Kroski on her blog, InfoTangle.)