I was talking with some folks the other day about, um, blogs. A meta-discussion, if you will. The upshot of the thing is they convinced me to give tagging a try. It would work especially well for me, they reasoned, because I use so few categories.
So this morning I spent some time going back through the posts and applying tags. My eyes hurt. Did I really write that drivel? [shrug] I grew a ‘tag cloud’ – not the most attractive thing in the world – and lost the original edit dates on the affected posts. So, on the off chance that you’re wondering what changed, the reality is that no text of any substance has changed. Just the tags.
—Added 5-Nov-2008: Okay, so I got tired of seeing the ‘tag cloud’ in the sidebar. It was just too big and intrusive! (I thought so, and others have said as much in email.) Besides, it showed up in a summary of this URL and I’m not so sure that’s good food for the search engines – it looks like spam. So, bye-bye tag cloud – for now at least – although I’ll keep adding tags to the new entries as I write.
Never re-read your own blog. It only leads to self-doubt and in extreme cases, voluntary commitment to asylums.
Good advice!
Hey, welcome back. I think I need to turn your once-dead link back on.