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Tags and Categories in WordPress 2.3

9/22/2007 – 11:15 am

Since the upcoming WordPress 2.3 release will debut the new tagging system, I thought I’d take some time to address what it means to use “tags” versus using “categories”. These things mean different things to different people, as it’s really just a matter of how you want to use them. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogging, Microformats, Search, Semantics, Tech, WordPress | Also tagged API, delicious, Metadata, plugin, Plugins, Politics, Tags, taxonomy, Technorati, Web, WordPress | Comments (46)

del.icio.us daily blog post fixer plugin

4/7/2006 – 9:06 am

I mentioned previously that I wanted to make a WordPress plugin that would touch up the posts created by the del.icio.us “daily blog post” feature. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Community, Microformats, Plugins, WordPress | Also tagged delicious, plugin, Tags, WordPress | Comments (43)

Linkitude

3/15/2006 – 12:20 pm

The previous post was the first on this site that was auto-generated by the del.icio.us “daily blog posting” feature. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Microformats, Semantics, Services, WordPress | Also tagged PHP, plugin, Tags, this-site | Comments (10)

Yahoo! My Web 2.0

6/29/2005 – 9:19 am

Somehow, I must find time to play with Yahoo! My Web 2.0… I don’t have time to read up on it and comment intelligently right now. . [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Search | Also tagged API, PHP, Service, Social, Tags, yahoo | Comments (3)

Feedlounge web-based aggregator

6/10/2005 – 2:12 pm

Alex King and Scott Sanders have announced FeedLounge, a “state of the art web-based feed reader.” Alex invited me to be an alpha tester, so I spent some time kicking it around yesterday. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Applications, Software | Also tagged Aggregators, Ajax, CSS, Feeds, Perl, PHP, Programming, RSS, Tags, Web | Comments (18)

Microformatpalooza

6/3/2005 – 3:59 pm

Tantek Ã‡elik has a whole gaggle of microformat links over on his site:

Basically, microformats are just organically grown rules to add application-specific semantics to existing XHTML documents. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Microformats, Semantics | Also tagged Google, plugin, Plugins, Tags, Technorati, Web, WordPress, XHTML | Comments (4)

Meme Roundup

1/21/2005 – 1:36 pm

There have been several new memes lately that I have thoughts on, but I just haven’t had the time to comment on them here. I still don’t have time to discuss them in as much depth as I’d like, but here’s a quick summary: