I'm slow on the uptake, this technology stuff just keeps getting more and more demanding... Just days ago Wayne persuaded me to add "trackback", and now a neat article from Freshblog has at last allowed me to add categories to my Blogger blogging. (With a little help from the best - if second most security impaired - browser and an addin called Greasemonkey!)
The scheme is neat, uses del.icio.us and Technorati (so must be way cool) tags to permit me to classify posts by subject - those of you who use Blogger must try this it is simple easy and convenient!
I think it raises the question of generating some common tags for biblioblogging: so I'd propose "open.biblical.studies" and/or "open.theology" as ways to indicate this range of topics, names of Bible books could be useful (or do we abbreviate them?), "biblioblog" for bibliobloging meta-posts... What are your suggestions?
[to Del.icio.us]
Tim, I'm glad you mentioned the idea of coming up with some uniform categories for tags. I've just been making up my own Technorati tags as I go along, but it's so much better to use tags that are already in use.
I'm going to look at your tagging process, to see if it can help me automate tagging. I've done everything manually so far. I don't mind doing things manually, but I also believe in conservation of energy (!!) and being able to focus on ideas and data, instead of the mechanisms of technology.
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Wayne Leman, at
August 20, 2005 1:00 PM
UPDATE: During this weekend I have added del.icio.us tags. Technorati is picking them up and displaying them along with my previous Technorati tags. My list of post categories in the right margin had gotten so long that I changed to a drop-down menu for them. I like it.
Thanks, again, Tim, for ideas which, I think, have led to a better tagging system on this blog.
By Wayne Leman, at
August 22, 2005 4:48 AM
I'm glad it was a help, I was grateful for your instructions on trackback... BTW you say Technorati is catching your del.ico.us tags, but I must be missing a step as that does not seem to be happening for me... I do't suppose you can guess what?
I'd also be keen for a few (even the two) of us to "talk" about tags and try to agree a few.
By Tim, at
August 22, 2005 7:23 AM
Technorati should see the tags, even if they link to del.icio.us, as long as they include the rel="tag" attribute. It might take them a while, but they do. See Freshblog.
By John, at
August 26, 2005 5:05 AM
John,
I agree T "ought" to pick them up, however it seems not to, whether this is because of the "missing" [span class="technoratitag"] or because the tags I am searching T for like open.biblical.studies have not been used directly on T, I do not know, more experiments are needed...
AND BTW thanks for the useful info and ideas!
By Tim, at
August 26, 2005 7:04 AM
