With the announcement that WordPress now realizes the difference between tags and categories, I’m going through my 34 posts to date and re-tagging them and limiting the categories. The way I see it with my technical writer lens on, categories are broad general topics and I’m hoping my blog will have about a half dozen […]
The anti-social folksonomist
I’m finding that in del.icio.us I’m using keywords that no one else uses. Does this mean I’m an anti-social folksonomist? This discovery reminds me that it’s important for findability to have tags that others will use too. On sites where popularity counts, it might be better to match others’ tags depending on what your end […]
Use a blog to respond to a blog post?
I’ve been diving deeper into social media and its use to make connections via email and also in real life. For example, I had a great lunch conversation with Alan Porter at Quadralay a few weeks back. We made the connection thanks to a comment conversation on Tom Johnson’s blog, I’d rather be writing. I […]