Local Tag Cosmos
I’ve added a local tag cosmos, which shows a tag cloud for posts on this site. Unfortunately, I’m also using tags and bookmarks scattered across del.icio.us, Flickr, Technorati, and other services, which aren’t integrated into the cloud, but this provides a different view of what’s been posted here since I’ve started tagging things.
I’m still evolving my personal use of tags. You can see that I’ve started tagging some posts with “web2.0“, although I’ve been reluctant to turn it into a site category. I don’t like the label, but I recognize that it’s the most popular tag for a lot of “new” stuff at the moment. So exposing the tag makes it more findable.
I’ve been debating reducing the number of post categories in favor of using frequently occuring tags for site navigation, so that recurring topics automatically make themselves more visible. It can be difficult to find things here, partly because I’m posting about a lot of different topics and partly because the categories don’t always organize the posts very well.
Tagging on this site is currently implemented using Jerome’s Keywords plugin for Wordpress to apply tags to posts and for generating the tag cloud.
Tags: web2.0, tagging, wordpress, plugins
