I know that this weblog doesn't have too many readers, but I just edited my blog template and included hyperlinks for saving & tagging each individual blog post with del.icio.us (inspired by A VC).

Furthermore, I've included a hyperlink for an URL search with del.icio.us, which searches for the blog post's permalink URL, and shows if and how it has been tagged. This is in the format del.icio.us/url?url=http://example.com (RSS: del.icio.us/rss/url?url=http://example.com).

Just look for the "Tag this" and "View tags" hyperlinks below each posting.

This is an interesting function, because it lets other users assign tags to other blogger's postings, based on their individual understanding of the content and what it means to them. I'm just trying this out here, so give it a shot.

To see how this could work, have a look at tag searches for an example text which is well-known and has already been tagged by a few people:
Clay Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

• Tag search with del.icio.us
• Tag search with furl.net

I'm not sure if this makes much sense out in the open, but I think it could be of value in educational blogging scenarios, maybe with a self-hosted social bookmarks manager like Scuttle, which has been released as open-source under the GPL.

Tags: Tagging, del.icio.us, MicroContent, Microlearning