Week 4: Social bookmarking and tagging

My del.icio.us / greensweaternation / account has been my favorite web resource for almost two years now. I use it to collect and store (selected) recommended resources that land in my e-mail inbox every day. I've also used it to locate items of interest by browsing the tags of other users who have bookmarked items the same items. I was drawn to this account by the use of the word "scientometrics."

I have 45 items in my list. The items most frequently saved by others were Gmail and Natalie Dee, followed by the associations (AMIA, MLA) and big search and literature tools (PubMed, PLos).

This week's questions:

• Can you see the potential of this tool for research assistance? As a provider of research assistance, I might consider using this resource to provide sets of links to patrons. I'd tag the links with a code for a patron, then tag the links as I normally would. After a period of time, I'd delete the patron's tag (but retain the tagged items). Maybe this would work... del.icio.us is just so easy to use that it would be a shame to continue to recreate lists and lose them again and again in e-mail exchanges.
  
• Or just as an easy way to create bookmarks that can be accessed from anywhere? For me personally, this is just a way to access bookmarks from anywhere. I'd be thrilled to use a tagged list, though, should anyone have the opportunity to share resources with me.