Well it was pretty easy to set up the blog. Some features of it seem a little annoying and clunky but on the whole it has been easy and quick.
Unsure about tagging. Experience in the community space has been that tags are done to death and just end up filling up space on screen. I suppose that consistency is the key and to make sure that a spade is always called a spade. If you start calling it a shovel in one post, then a spade, then an earth mover, then a spade again, then a tool, then an implement then a shovel and then a spade again you'll never be able to find all digging related posts.
And that's enough digging for now.
Interesting - I'm viewing the tags more as a short description of the main topic (or two topics, say) of the post, to act as useful visual signposts for readers, e.g. so that they can be grouped together in a side-bar, like a brief index.
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely not trying to use them like I would tags on Delicious, say, where'd I'd try to use lots of different words and synomyns, etc., and I'm...
- second-guessing what other people might call a subject
- using lots of tags so sites could be grouped in different ways by different subject specialists
- facilitating the search process by providing extra metadata
- helping users construct their own searches and tags by giving examples of synomyns, alternative phrases, etc.
Wow, that turned into a long comment, didn't it?