Thing 17: delicious

I've used delicious before, and I think it's a fab idea! All my favourite web sites accessible on the same page... from any PC... that's got to be a good thing?!

I find the whole concept of social bookmarking, social networking and folksonomies fascinating - could this be the collective unconscious made tangible? Will the rules of cataloguing and classification become redundant or are we allowing the patients to take-over the asylum? The debate rages (in more than one forum) as to whether it's a good idea to abandon traditional, libraryish ideas such as authority control and subject headings, but if these "old fashioned" approaches to information are no longer relevant, how do we stay informed? Perhaps social bookmarking sites will become the new authority control?