Social bookmarking could be useful for reading lists, as per Helen Blowers podcast. It could go so far as to substitute our webpages for faculty resources, which could allow user input, lecturers and students. There was some interesting exploration of online subject guides on Meredith Farkas' blog. I also read that an academic presence was increasing on del.icio.us which could be useful to individual researchers. The library could possibly play a role here but researchers would probably find their own specific material. It's amusing that this easy to use everyman's technology raises the question about controlled language. Maybe we should all just use as many keywords as we can think of, covering synonyms, etc., for most relevancy.
The little searching I did on Technorati brought out some very irrelevant and odd things. I can't see that much use for the library, but would that matter considering the level of authority and relevance found in blogs. The useful subject blogs would probably be known to people that are interested in them rather than go trawling through millions of blogs.
On a personal level I think I could easily get used to using both handy tools for keeping track of bookmarks and interesting blogs, you know, for those times when you've got nothing better to do than surf!
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