There are great advantages to saving bookmarks online in a public space rather than on a private server. People who use Delicious will be exposed to our bookmarks and may become curious about other things the library offers. Delicious also offers us the ability to put many tags on a single entry.
The only drawback is that the vocabulary used to tag entries is not controlled - we need to make sure that we are consistent in our use of tags so that all sites related to a topic will file together. A personal user of Delicious may not care if everything comes up at once when they search "Genealogy" for example, but the way we use bookmarks requires that we be able to access all of our sites under one fairly specific term - as well as being able to search more broadly.
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