August 16, 2006
In case you hadn't noticed, I've made some changes to my blogroll. But that's okay, you shouldn't be able to notice the difference anyway.
I decided to migrate my entire blogroll to my del.icio.us. I took a look at BlogRolling as an alternative but I decided to use del.icio.us since it could serve the same function and I don't like having too many accounts on all those services trolling the web.
There are a number of advantages to this. If anyone wants to see my blogroll, you'd just have to look at my bookmarks tagged "blogroll". Also, it's easier to maintain since I don't have to fiddle with my Blogger template when I need to make changes. All I need to do to display my blogroll is to insert a nifty linkroll script. Lastly, if ever I decide to move my blog, it'd be easier to move the blogroll as well.
BTW, if you're still not on my blogroll (and you want to be on it), please drop a comment.
I decided to migrate my entire blogroll to my del.icio.us. I took a look at BlogRolling as an alternative but I decided to use del.icio.us since it could serve the same function and I don't like having too many accounts on all those services trolling the web.
There are a number of advantages to this. If anyone wants to see my blogroll, you'd just have to look at my bookmarks tagged "blogroll". Also, it's easier to maintain since I don't have to fiddle with my Blogger template when I need to make changes. All I need to do to display my blogroll is to insert a nifty linkroll script. Lastly, if ever I decide to move my blog, it'd be easier to move the blogroll as well.
BTW, if you're still not on my blogroll (and you want to be on it), please drop a comment.
Labels: del.icio.us, hacks, RubeTube
August 02, 2006
Tags. The feature that is number one on every Blogger blogger's wishlist. If it is not at the top of your list, then please tell me what could possibly be more important in this Web 2.0 world we live in. And I don't want to use some silly hack like this or this, I want built-in support.
The guys working on Blogger will figure this one out soon enough. I mean, if I didn't have faith in them in them, I should've just gotten myself a Wordpress blog, right? But noooo, I just had to go get myself a Blogger blog. I still don't know why I didn't go for http://rubetube.wordpress.com (not a working URL). It should be simple enough since they have an import-from-Blogger tool. But right now, it's too soon to give up on Google (and it's too soon to spam my friends again to tell them about another blog when this one barely has any entries). Perhaps in the far future, if (not when) I become as famous as Robert Scoble (who uses Wordpress).
(And I will never use Windows Live Spaces, a.k.a. the MySpace wannabe.)
When (not if) tagging is integrated into Blogger, I boldly predict that the feature will be called "Labels", in true Google fashion. "Categories" is probably a good candidate as well. "Tags" won't work because they're used in templating.
But to be honest, I must confess that I'm not used to the whole concept of tagging (even if I am an avid user of del.icio.us). I'm terribly OC when it comes to consistently naming tags. Right now, it annoys me to no end that I have a tag called "parody" and another one called "oldies"; shouldn't they both be pluralized (or maybe not)? And how much different is "nostalgia" from "oldies"? Tagging becomes too much of a chore at times. Maybe the Blogger team is coming up with a feature that analyzes the contents of an entry (only available to blogs in English during beta) and then automatically assigns them tags that are consistent with those used by the rest of the blogosphere. Heck, maybe I should write this nifty program (and win an award or two).
To summarize, I began this entry clamoring for the addition of a tagging feature, and ended with an emotional critique/bashing of the tagging process and a proclamation that will most likely never come to pass.
The guys working on Blogger will figure this one out soon enough. I mean, if I didn't have faith in them in them, I should've just gotten myself a Wordpress blog, right? But noooo, I just had to go get myself a Blogger blog. I still don't know why I didn't go for http://rubetube.wordpress.com (not a working URL). It should be simple enough since they have an import-from-Blogger tool. But right now, it's too soon to give up on Google (and it's too soon to spam my friends again to tell them about another blog when this one barely has any entries). Perhaps in the far future, if (not when) I become as famous as Robert Scoble (who uses Wordpress).
(And I will never use Windows Live Spaces, a.k.a. the MySpace wannabe.)
When (not if) tagging is integrated into Blogger, I boldly predict that the feature will be called "Labels", in true Google fashion. "Categories" is probably a good candidate as well. "Tags" won't work because they're used in templating.
But to be honest, I must confess that I'm not used to the whole concept of tagging (even if I am an avid user of del.icio.us). I'm terribly OC when it comes to consistently naming tags. Right now, it annoys me to no end that I have a tag called "parody" and another one called "oldies"; shouldn't they both be pluralized (or maybe not)? And how much different is "nostalgia" from "oldies"? Tagging becomes too much of a chore at times. Maybe the Blogger team is coming up with a feature that analyzes the contents of an entry (only available to blogs in English during beta) and then automatically assigns them tags that are consistent with those used by the rest of the blogosphere. Heck, maybe I should write this nifty program (and win an award or two).
To summarize, I began this entry clamoring for the addition of a tagging feature, and ended with an emotional critique/bashing of the tagging process and a proclamation that will most likely never come to pass.
Labels: Blogger, del.icio.us, rant, Web 2.0
