I feel a little odd undertaking this assignment: find a social bookmarker and profile them. Profile the dickens out of their interests, and think about how they are related to you by interests alone. So this must, necessarily, be a small investigatory project with a lot of interpretation.
I think I got lucky by finding Graydread on del.icio.us so easily. From what I can gather so far he (or she, but some unconscious gender sense is telling me he) seems to be an Australian teacher (perhaps this school, if an inference can be made from his network), probably of high-school aged students, and massive geek. One of his tags is "discworld_mud." I'll let that stand on its own.
His (there's an interest in sports, cars, and videogames, some I'm feeling more confident in a prejudiced declaration of masculinity) tag bundles include: "AboriginalStudies, Auto, Education, English, Humanities, Games&Simulations, ICT, Linguistics, Literature, Media, Philosophy, Politics, ResearchTools, Science&Psychology, Sport," and, of course, unbundled tags. So his interests are certainly broader than mine, but have a similar overlap in broader areas of anthropology, technology, humanities, and games. Of all his tags, it seems that games are what he most frequently posts about, both critical reading material and links to such necessaries as patches and mods. So whatever it is that we have in common, he seems to get it.
Right now, I'm watching a video he's saved, and it seems, if we are to follow Antonisse's classifications, Graydread is both a geek and a nerd.
I'm at a loss really, for what more I can extrapolate from a set of bookmarks alone: he tends to bookmark in bursts, a few things on a day, a day or two at a time, sometimes more, sometimes less. I think the same can be said for any casual production, whether it is writing or saving something. While his tags are extensive, his comments are laconic: usually they note the bare minimum of content on the available page ("Article on publication of 3 Dick novels"). I think he may be teaching/have taught a unit on The Doll, because a number of his bookmarks tucked in between resources about the play, are labeled described with a simple "cheat site." Expecting to find codes and "1337 h4cks" I was greeted by an essay mill. So he's a savvy teacher. His emphasis on pedagogy (I just realized that "peda-gogy" fits perfectly as a knuckle tattoo) and plagiarism seems to drive this home, but the additional material stored under psychology makes me think that this isn't just a teacher who is in love with his curriculum, but is actively trying to engage his students, to open up their heads and climb around a little bit.
There's a whole section carved out for "e-learning," including an article on how to use del.icio.us as a teaching tool, as well as a number of Edublogs, which isn't surprising given that service's Australian origins.
Something I haven't seen before, but what seems useful, is how he's tagged certain posts with "Dad" or "Becca," familial and familiar names, either indicating things family members can find easily, or things that he saved because he couldn't forward them immediately. Which seems odd, but I imagine based on his rigorously organized bookmarks, he separates his time online between gathering and disseminating links.
His game posts skew slightly towards roleplaying games, both MMOs and singleplayer, with a particular fondness for Oblivion. But racing games, soccer, and the like are also present in a healthy amount.
What first drew me to this profile was a similar number, and eye towards the quality, of bookmarks that talked about games. Now that I've spent a little more time here, I think I have a little more appreciation for what this one person is collecting. It's odd, because I never expected to drill so deeply into an anonymous collection of saved pages and try and re-assemble a person from behind them. But that said, I think I've managed to glean a better perspective on the editorial style behind this list of selections.