Comments on: Brought to You by the Letter ‘T’ http://mnteractive.com/archive/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t Minnesota's Interaction Design, Information Architecture, and User Experience Design Community Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:27:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Darrel http://mnteractive.com/archive/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t/comment-page-1#comment-194 Darrel Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:54:03 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t/#comment-194 Tim: If Technorati doesn't know your current tag, it goes ahead and makes a new one. Granted, if you are the only one on the planet using it, it won't be much use over at Technorati ;o) Tim:

If Technorati doesn’t know your current tag, it goes ahead and makes a new one. Granted, if you are the only one on the planet using it, it won’t be much use over at Technorati ;o)

]]> By: Garrick Van Buren http://mnteractive.com/archive/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t/comment-page-1#comment-193 Garrick Van Buren Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:16:06 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t/#comment-193 Tim, you're exactly right. For this to work, a category needs to be set up for every tag you use and the categories need to be somewhat descriptive. For category/tag reuse, this could be a good thing. This could increase the number of categories in your site. Which could be good or bad. Based on my brief experimentation, if the tag isn't currently in Technorati's system, it seems to be automatically created. Tim, you’re exactly right. For this to work, a category needs to be set up for every tag you use and the categories need to be somewhat descriptive. For category/tag reuse, this could be a good thing. This could increase the number of categories in your site. Which could be good or bad.

Based on my brief experimentation, if the tag isn’t currently in Technorati’s system, it seems to be automatically created.

]]> By: Tim Elliott http://mnteractive.com/archive/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t/comment-page-1#comment-192 Tim Elliott Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:47:01 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/brought-to-you-by-the-letter-t/#comment-192 Garrick, Very cool plug-in, but I see some unintended consequences of this as most of us don't align our Wordpress categories with existing Technorati tags. For example, for my post last night for Wine Blogging Wednesday, I embedded "wine" and "wine blogging wednesday" (both existing tags) into my post using Will Flemming's <a href="http://metalllama.host.sk/index.php/archives/category/projects/">Technorati Tags</a> plug-in. My WP categories for the post are "podcasts" (probably OK for Technorati) and "WBW" (nobody is using this one yet, for good reason). So I see a problem with your plug-in unless we all rename our categories to line up with existing Technorati tags; this might not be a bad policy, but I can see some chaos ensuing. See you later. Garrick,

Very cool plug-in, but I see some unintended consequences of this as most of us don’t align our Wordpress categories with existing Technorati tags. For example, for my post last night for Wine Blogging Wednesday, I embedded “wine” and “wine blogging wednesday” (both existing tags) into my post using Will Flemming’s Technorati Tags plug-in. My WP categories for the post are “podcasts” (probably OK for Technorati) and “WBW” (nobody is using this one yet, for good reason). So I see a problem with your plug-in unless we all rename our categories to line up with existing Technorati tags; this might not be a bad policy, but I can see some chaos ensuing.

See you later.

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