January 1, 2008
The grandfather of social bookmarking sites is del.icio.us, which basically brought “tagging” mainstream (along with Technorati). Most people I know who use the service end up with unwieldy tag clouds, however, because it’s often hard to enforce a self-discipline on what tags you assign. I’ve spent a lot of time manually pruning my tags but [...]
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December 7, 2007
The WordPress 2.3.x branch officially incorporated tagging into the WordPress core, rendering many third-party tagging plugins obsolete. However, the implementation of tags is largely redundant to the existing category system. As present, both categories1 and tags are systems for taxonomy: tax·on·o·my (tăk-sŏn’ə-mē) pronunciation n., pl. -mies. 1. The classification of organisms in an ordered system [...]
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