tags

The very rudimentary WYSIWYG mode in ecto is not so great but it's far better than staring at HTML code (which I know, love and curse daily). So much as I'd love to, I can't use MarsEdit 1.2 since it still doesn't have a WYSIWYG mode. Still using ecto! Alas, no progress has been made in WYSIWYG Mac blog editor's since ecto introduced it in 2004 :-( ! It's 2007, could we please have a real WYSIWYG mode in Mac blog editors? I know that true WYSIWYG is hard but even something that moves the state of the art forward like handling nested lists properly would be great!

Unfortunately neither ecto or MarsEdit have a solution that can handle 100s of categories (how about some kind of auto-complete?) that Drupal free tagging allows you to create as pioneered by del.icio.us and flickr!

Sorry, I won't use any tag cloud including ZoomClouds that doesn't link to my tags on my own site i.e. ZoomClouds should link to rolandtanglao.com/tag/tagname not zoomclouds.com/tag/roland-tanglao/tagname unless ZoomClouds pays me for the links :P

Time for me to install the drupal tagcloud module! Eines Tages/Some day!

From ZoomClouds.:

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Tag clouds are cool, informative, appealing representations abot what's happening in your blog, or anywhere else.

With ZoomClouds you can put in a matter of minutes a tag cloud in your site, based on whichever RSS feed you like.

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More great stuff from Mike.

From --Mike--: Useful Abstractions.:

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There are some who have big problems with tags, because they're not specific enough, and they might overlap, and they tend to be a bit messy. What they do for us is allow us to categorize things for the task at hand. On Flickr, they help locate pictures of kittens, elsewhere they help categorize knowledge, websites, RSS feeds, etc. Tags are gritty and human, and just functional enough to get the job done. They serve as useful abstractions of the subject at hand.

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Not quite mainstream but this is the next step. Coming soon to millions of Yahoo! users, tagging! Great news. Congrats to Yahoo! on acquiring yet another cool small team!

From del.icio.us: y.ah.oo!.:

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We're proud to announce that del.icio.us has joined the Yahoo! family. Together we'll continue to improve how people discover, remember and share on the Internet, with a big emphasis on the power of community. We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. (We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin Flickr!)

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