The truth about tagging

16 05 2007

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I am definitely inspired by Lisa’s kids and I really do want to tag my posts, but I just can’t seem to get into the routine.

Clearly, I need to either:

a) be convinced that it is absolutely essential to the blogging experience. What exactly does tagging do for me?

or

b) find an easier way to embed tags every day. I know about David’s handy tag generator, but I guess I need it to be even easier…

Part of the problem is that I read this:

If your blog software supports categories and RSS/Atom feeds (like Movable Type, WordPress, TypePad, Blogware, Radio), just use the included category system and make sure you are publishing RSS/Atom feeds and your categories will be read as tags.

back in August when I started blogging and, since it sounded logical and I’m using WordPress, I promptly forgot all about it and assumed it would work.

So, what’s the story? Am I tagging? If I’m not, why should I be?

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