Delicious ... one of those words that invokes feelings of indulgence and satiety ... might even inspire a little salivation. When I think of a website deserving of the name 'delicious' I am more inclined to recall foodgawker.com, from whose pages come these edible photos.
As a stand-in for bookmarks on your own laptop or desktop, delicious.com makes a lot of sense. Portable bookmarks - very handy. In terms of aesthetics though, the site itself doesn't quite live up to its name.
Delicious.com really is quite functional as a locus for CPL's Best Websites. It is easy enough to use, once you know where to find it! (A few months ago I had forgotten that there is a link through E-Library and simply tried searching on delicious itself. Neither "Calgary Public Library Favourites" nor "calgarypubliclibaryfavourites" yielded the right result, due to my non-american spelling of favourites.)
It is easy to access (previous issue notwithstanding), easy to update, and easy to navigate as well. It is a bit bloated. I don't think I would use the site for social tagging; there are so many other forums for sharing faves. But I do appreciate the technology as a great platform for our Best Websites.
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