Tagging on Blogdrive

John of Darkskies just send me a contact form on one of his new ideas.

It's pretty cool and I can see he has had some thoughts put into it. It's a set of tags for different tagging services.

I'm not sure social networking is the right term to use here since it's basically just tagging. And tagging has got nothing to do with social, only helps with search engine rankings and search engine traffics.

Let me give you an example: Windows Live Mail beta. This entry, more than any entry in this blog received a huge boost due to those taggings.

Anyway, it's still a pretty good idea. Should your reader feel like they want to find out more about the related topic, they can just follow those links and see what other people are talking about.

We still lack enough reasons why people should start tagging. It's like, what's the point of using "Extended entry" or "keywords". What's the point of having them? What do they do? Until now, eventhough I'm using them, I'm still not exactly clear what they are for.

J f Z has some pretty nice logos to help promote this habit. Although unnecessary because you can do it without them, but it adds style and class to it.

Tags: Blogdrive, tags, tagging, category,

Blog Tag Clouds Generator

I find tag clouds fascinating. It's a really cool way of design and it tells a lot of information regarding your blog. A useful way to evaluate the contents of the blog, categorising it's post and an instant method of evaluating the blog.

But it's not possible here on blogdrive, yet. Maybe it'll be a good suggestion to Blogdrive's new category/tag system. (You guys listening?)

Well, cool it may be. I wonder if your visitors actually look at tag clouds? Will they be using the tag clouds to navigate the site? Will they just see it as another blind section and not bother about it anymore?

I wonder if there are sites out there that offers tag clouds for blogs. It'll need some spidering of a blog before they can come up with a tag cloud. Technorati have them but they are not very good. In fact, technorati is under bad heavy pressure from spam blogs that almost any non-spam blogs are considered spam.

Back to tag clouds, I'll attemp to make my own if I can't find an available service.

Anyone with suggestions?

*UPDATE: Just found ZoomClouds, try it out dudes.

Tags: tag clouds, design, navigation, spam, blogdrive,

SnapShirts' Word Clouds

Word clouds are pretty cool, in a geeky way. Check out mine for this blog

Try them out yourself at Snapshirts.com and let me know what it looks like.

divs in [blog title]

A couple of days ago, BlogDrive added some divs tags to all [blog title] texts, wrapping them up and labelling them with a unique ID:

<div id="XXXXX_kdub1">[blog title]</div>

XXXXX being some random number.

This change has caused some of the scripts I did not work properly. Luckily, it's not a very big change so it's not exactly obvious. Or rather, I'm just a damn good javascript programmer that the scripts just degrade gracefully automatically. *wink*

Right, the scripts can be fixed. So, it's not something to worry about since all it needs is my time to sit down and remanipulate the [Blog Title] strings to omit the divs.

The problem lies in all the completed, flawless templates. There are more than two hundred fifty of them, and I don't think there's is anytime to look at all of them, and determine which is would fail.

Also, my previous method of using [blog title] in <title> tags (to aid in search engine ranking) would now fail to serve any purpose. Maybe BlogDrive should do that automatically for permalink pages, since it'll gain search engine ranks. It's a win-win situation if they do it, since both bloggers and BD gain popularity. However, there might be some specific yet unknown reasons why they have not implemented it.

Contrary to what many people thinks, getting ranked in Google is actually much more of a compliment than "leaving tracks on the internet". If you want to blog, you should know well enough what you are opting for.