No more del.icio.us tags

I'm getting rid of all my entries on del.icio.us for this blog, which means all my original links to those tags will be dead. I'm not going to edit all my posts to take out the links because I'm lazy.

The New Deal with Tags

So since the NEW amazing (OMG) blogger beta supports tags, I'm gonna be using that feature now instead of the old del.icio.us greasemonkey system I was using before. On all my old posts, I went and edited them to put the blogger tags in, but I left the old delicious tags (except on the first one I edited before I decided to keep the old tags too).

Tags!

I got tags working again for my blog. I found a different greasemonkey user script with similar functionality here. It actually has some features the previous one I was using didn't. For instance, with this one, there's no need to go in and edit the script to link to your del.icio.us account, there will be a popup prompt the first time you make a new post it to add your account. Plus it works, which is always good.

Filed in:

• Meta
• Tagging
• Categories
• Del.icio.us

Categories

Since this blog is still fairly new, I am still frequently making little changes until it is to my liking. One of these changes, which I made today was to my categories. Previously, I had decided to only have fairly broad categories, like "meta," "cinema," "news," and "humor" for my posts, but today I changed my mind. I decided that I would also include also fairly specific category tags when appropriate. I will tend to list the broader categories first, and then more specific ones. I have gone back and added some tags to a few of my posts as per this change. In order to not go too crazy with categories, though, I have decided to impose a strict four tag limit for each post.

If you're wondering exactly how I've gone about creating these tags for my posts, I use the method described here. Basically, you must first have firefox and the greasemonkey extension for it (I can't imagine why you wouldn't, unless you use safari for mac). Then you download this greasemonkey script, and edit it to point to your del.icio.us account. When you post, there is a new field for generating tags automatically that point to categories in your del.icio.us account. Then, once you post your entry to blogger, you make a post for it on your del.icio.us page (I have made a del.icio.us account devoted to this blog, so as not to mix things with my other del.icio.us account, which could get confusing for someone wanting to browse all my posts in category x). In addition to linking to the appropriate category in blogger, that script also creates tags which are viewable by technorati bots, so you kill two birds with one stone. Slightly more detailed instructions and explanations are at that first link I provided in this paragraph.

Filed in: Meta Tagging Technorati Del.icio.us

(Clicking on these links takes you to that category under my del.icio.us account. Also, if you search for them at technorati, you should be able to find this post, though possibly burried under many many posts from other, better blogs than this one).