My holiday blogging was even more sparse than I expected, but I did make a good start at my transition to putting bookmark-style blog entries (or blog-style bookmarks) online with del.icio.us. I hadn't done much with "tagging" in the past because before "tags" really caught on, I had started using my blog software's "category" feature ot define separate blogs like AEJMC Newspaper and Podfolk.

The del.icio.us tagging tools for Firefox made the process relatively painless, but I haven't fully committed to putting all of my bookmark collections on a for-free website, no matter how well established. But del.icio.us certainly would be a better tool for organizing and updating lists than that old site of mine.

Anyhow, now that I have more than 125 pages bookmarked with del.icio.us, some patterns (and a lot of overlap) are beginning to emerge in my "cloud" of tag topics:

academic | americana | apple | archives | attribution | audio | avatars | awards | bands | banjo | bebo | berkeley | blog | blogger | bloggers | blogging | blogs | bluegrass | blues | bookmarking | books | bubba | bulletinboards | business | calendar | citation | citizenjournalism | citizenmedia | cms | cnet | collaboration | collegemedia | community | copyright | corrections | courant | Creativecommons | crowdsourcing | css | cut-and-paste | defamation | del.icio.us | design | dictionary | digitalculture | django | drupal | editing | education | English | ethics | facebook | fiddle | folk | folkmusic | forums | free | freespeech | gigaom | giraffe | google | government | grammar | greatsmokies | greatsmoky | guardian | hartford | hiking | history | html | humor | images | imagination | innovation | instapundit | interactivity | international | internet | jobs | jobsearch | journalism | journalist | journalists | knoxville | language | law | lawrence | lessig | lexicograaphy | lexicography | libel | library | linkage | linkedin | literacy | local | longtail | magazines | mapping | media | medialaw | mediareform | microsoft | mobile | moveabletype | mp3 | multimedia | music | myspace | neologism | neologisms | networking | newmedia | news | newspaper | newspapers | newsu | newswriting | OED | oldtimemusic | online | onlinejournalism | opensource | opinion | orkut | outdoor | permalinks | photo-manipulation | photography | photojournalism | photos | plagiarism | platform | podcast | podcasts | poynter | pr | press | pressreleases | preview | professional | programming | Proquest | publishing | pulitzer | python | quicktime | radio | rdf | recreation | reporters | research | resume | robcurley | roots | RSS | ruby | scholarship | scripps | search | secondlife | sixapart | smartmobs | social | socialbookmarking | socialnetworking | SocialSoftware | software | southknoxbubba | spj | stepno | stock | streaming | stringbands | style | syndication | tagging | teaching | technology | Tennessee | theory | todo | tools | tutorial | tutorials | tv | university | usability | userland | video | vlog | vocabulary | vr | web | web2.0 | webcast | webdesign | webpublishing | wiki | winer | wordpress | words | writing | wsj | xhtml
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