Tagging
2 10 2007In light of this talk and obviously in reaction to WordPress’s recent adoption of tags, I really want to use them as more-specific categories. However, it’s simply unfeasible for me to go through every post. There must be some kind of software solution! While a computer may not know I’m talking about JavaScript when I mention my Tiberian Sun Tactical Calculator, it could at least scan my blog for commonly-occurring words or phrases that aren’t too common (not “and” or “not” or “the” or “I am feeling” etc.) and auto-tag?
To make that more effective, it could take into account the tags and categories I’ve specified - as well as those that others have specified across the blogosphere. It sounds useful and shouldn’t be that hard - should it? I suppose it’s again a question of practicality on a large scale… maybe Google or someone should do this.
How about a neat statistical thing of which words I use the most, and when I click on a word it shows the most common words that accompany it? That would be cool.
Pax
Uhuhuhuhu. I don’t get what tags are D:
They are metadata
you know there is a categories to tags converter in wp 2.3… you could easily transfer all your old tags into your new tag cloud.
What?!
I did it but the “new” tags don’t show up in my tag cloud and my category cloud is empty…
happy with it now?
and yeah.. it clears your categories. Sorry i should have said.
Yeah the tag cloud has repigged since I posted that comment. Awesome.