Week 2 Reflections

Moving in to the second week I am beginning to think of the possiblities for projects. I am fairly knowledgeable about a lot of these topics, in that I use Flickr, Delicious, Wikis, Podcasts, and RSS feeds on a very frequent basis. Thus, I am a little worried that much of the first half of the class, the class meetings will be a lot of rehash of stuff I already know about. As for my own project, there were a few things that came to mind. A few of my ideas were....open source software, digg.com, Wikis in Education, Google web applications, and Web browser extensions. These all would have been interesting topics, but what I have really decided to focus my attention on is tagging. Tagging is the idea of attaching keywords to various things on the internet. This technology is adding many interesting ways to manage and find information of various kinds. My idea is to try to find many ways in which tagging is used and how this is making it easier for people.