Since I started using Ecto I have also started adding Technorati tags to my posts (btw: congrats to Technorati for being still alive and kicking 3 years later :-).

I have been tagging posts on our intranet blogging system for a while using the What+Where+Who approach, i.e. using names of products, places and people to allow tags aggregators to create clusters of posts with some meaning.

This approach works well: check out the OPML tag or the Ecto tags to find some interesting stuff.

I'm not using tags as categories (for example "humor" or "technology"). Or maybe I should say "I'm not using what I think should be tags as what I think should be categories".

How about names? Is it "David Weiberger" or "DavidWeinberger"? The second syntax seems to be more popular, even if the fist one is better imho, to prevent for example a guy named Paoloval Demarin to end up having his stuff mixed with mine. But since this is supposed to be an emerging 2.0 thing, I'm going with the flow and writing names without spaces.

I wish Ecto would be able to suggest tags (even simply picking from the tags I have already used) like my intranet blogging app does.

From time to time I find what I consider strange tags on other blogs and I'm reminded that this hasn't to be considered too serious. :-)

PS: exactly one year ago Dave was wondering about the difference between categories and keywords. Tags are keywords. IMHO.

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