Thing 12 -- Social Media Sites

I am interested in what other people are reading about on the web, but I think I prefer to read stories organized by subject rather than popularity. I do think this is a way to find news stories that are not covered by the biggies that pop up on my computer screen like CNN and YahooNews. Like this one for example which I found on Reddit. But I am also skeptical about the reliability of some of the news sources of course.

Newsvine is okay and I do like Mixx because of the way you can choose your subject.

Thing 11 -- Tagging and del.icio.us

This morning I started an experiment. I got rid of all my bookmarks (at work) and put them into del.icio.us! Sounds crazy huh? I will probably regret it, but seriously, I am going to try to organize all of the websites that I use on a regular basis and try to make a habit of adding new ones that could help me in the future.

The major challenges are: tags can't be more than one word (ugh!), I have to remember to log myself in at the beginning of the day and I also need to remember to tag as I bookmark, because it can be a drag to go back and tag everything when I make a new cluster. I am excited that my tag cloud can go into Facebook. I doubt anyone really cares about my tags, but whatever.