豆知识 2009-11-22&11-24 社会化书签(1/2)

 It’s just too much. Did you know that there are over 15 billion web pages? To make sense of it all, we’d need to pluck¹ out the best pages and save them for later. We have choices. We could bookmark or add to favorites in our web browser². Nah, it quickly becomes messy. Plus, these bookmarks are tied to only one computer. This is the old way.

 

There’s a new way that doesn’t use a browser. It uses a website. This is called a social bookmarking site. And the one we’ll use today is called Delicious. It makes bookmarking more useful and fun. We’ll focus on three things. How to get started with bookmarking? How bookmarks are organized by tags⁴? And why this kind of bookmarking is social?

 

First, go to delicious.com to sign up for a free account. While you’re signing up, you’ll see an easy way to add a couple of buttons to your browser. These are important. The Tag³ button is how you’ll add new bookmarks to the website. On any website, you can click “Tag” to save that site as a delicious bookmark. Easy! 

 

Consider this example. You are a teacher who often uses the web to find math lessons for eighth graders. You’re overwhelmed⁵ by all the sites. There are just too many to remember. Using delicious, remembering sites is as easy as tagging them. Here’s one, uh, nice, perfect. 

 

Here’s what happens when you tag a site. A new window opens and asks for more information. You can add keywords or tags that describe the site. These will help you find bookmarks later. You might tag this site “algebra”, “bestof”, “tutorial”, “math” and “homework”, then click “save” to save it on the delicious website. When you save a page like this, two things happen. First, the site is saved with all your other bookmarks on delicious.com. Second, the tags are saved in a list of all your tags. You just repeat this process for every site you want to save. This is bookmarking.

1 pluck   

v.摘，拔（毛）拨，弹奏，拉；n.勇气，决心

参考例句：

• He is full of pluck.他很有勇气。
• With a few pluck at the string of his banjo,everybody is singing along.他拨了拨班卓琴的琴弦，每个人就都跟著唱了起了。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 tag   

n.标签，附属物，名称，谚语；vt.附以签条，尾随，添饰，指责，连接；vi.紧随，尾随

参考例句：

• Please tag your baggage.请在你的行李上贴上标签了。
• The clerk attached a price tag to each article.店员给每一件商品系上标价签。

4 tags   

n.[计算机]标记( tag的名词复数 )；附加语（为加强语气，如 Yes, I do 一句中的 I do）；名言；污块毛

参考例句：

• He put name tags on all his shirts. 他给自己所有的衬衣都缝上了标有姓名的签条。
• The old scholar's writing is always full of tags. 那位老学者的文章里总是有很多名言警句。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 overwhelmed   

[ overwhelm ]的过去式

参考例句：

• She was overwhelmed by feelings of guilt. 她感到愧疚难当。
• If (one was) overwhelmed by passion, it could lead to serious blunders. 当感情完全淹没理智时，就可能铸成大错。