Socialbookmarking Soulmate

It took a long time to commit, as so many of us in postmodern romances do, but I think I've finally found my socialbookmarking soulmate. I heart bobaker, of citeulike.org. He/She is dreamy... what? I cannot assume bobaker's a male, what if Bob is short for Roberta?

In all seriousness, this whole social bookmarking thing has been a double edged sword for me, the perpetual bungler of all things web 2.0. On the one hand, there are so many and they are so complicated, and you have to understand all this new techno-vocabulary just to navigate your way around them. On the other hand, once you do, they are so helpful.... but back to the first hand, so expansive and wide-ranging.

An academic acquaintance of mine informed me of citeulike, a social bookmarking network for peer reviewed articles only. Which is so perfect, for me, someone who likes libraries, and the concepts of validity, legitimacy, and authenticity.

Next, it was a matter of searching for tattoo tags, or people who had articles, essays or books in their libraries that they had categorized as having to do with tattoo. There were many, though most were having to do with skin and dermatology (a perfectly fascinating science on its own, just not for me). So, I included culture to the keyword search, and voila! Introducing, bobaker, and his 14 articles relating to tattoo and culture. Bobaker is not meticulous in his library upkeep, he doesn't add comments or organize in a overtly coherent way (soulmate). Bobaker has 40 articles in all, with a good majority to do, not only with tattoo and subculture, but psychology and philosophy as well (sigh). Bobaker even has cinematography and horror as tags (louder sigh), the former having to do with my visual anthropologically inclined side, and the ladder to do with my guilty pleasure customarily clandestine side.

What were the chances? Well if you believe in fate, then I suppose there were none, and it was meant to be. I was destined to stumble upon babaker, and glean scholarly articles on my specific subject matter off of him/her. Although, that leads me into reverie... what have I ever done for bobaker?