step #10~my new job found via delicious!

the ring, originally uploaded by mmasquerade.

i think i have discovered my new calling in life! i think i am going to quite my day job and dedicate my life to urban knitting!!! yes you have read that correctly. i am going to devote my life to the beautifying of the world by creating knitted graffiti! i mean what could be more fun??? and now all 3 of you are wondering how i came up with such an inspirational vocation...delicious is the answer. someone else on the 23 things delicious account tagged a website over urban knitting and via the tag “breien”(knitting) i found the site and now my prayers are answered and i have found THE job for me. super fun! for private use is tagging via delicious a fun way to discover new sites, keep track of your new found favourite sites and so on and so forth. the free thought everyday language used to tag creates open access and opportunity for the everyday homosapien to explore a whole new world and keep track of it using the words that make sense them. i don't believe it can be used to replace the controlled vocabulary of a cataloguer in the library world. we still need a structured thesaurus to find both physical and virtual information in both the physical and virtual world of the library. but it can enhance our use of the virtual world experience and perhaps library world experience we a whole as well. there are issues of inconsistency, overlap and user generated flaws, which are just some of the reasons why the controlled vocabulary is still required. but tagging can provide alternative perhaps more user-friendly ways for users to access information in our logical but not always user-friendly system. we shall see what the future holds. regardless my natural inclination is to create my own thesaurus for delicious use that i can create my own logical and purposeful schema for finding and keeping track of my websites. however the reality of the situation is that as fun as it is delicious isn’t something i really see myself making full use of at the moment. It was useful for a second though…watch out world here come my knitting needles!

ps. this photo was found on flickr and was uploaded by mmasquerade the 20th of may 2007. for more information about urban knitting check out:

http://deputy-dog.com/2008/11/urban-knitting-worlds-most-inoffensive.html

happy looking and reading!