Blogging tip to all of you bloggers out there: Think about categorizing before you have hundreds of posts.
Now, you might notice the categorizing/tagging on this blog is abysmal. I have no excuses for that. It’s just something I’ve been quite lazy about, however, I’ve recently finished categorizing and tagging all of my posts on my movie blog. I’ve been working on it periodically over the past several months. I’ve categorized movie reviews by movie genres and keywords and then I’ve tagged them by directors, writers, and actors.
This isn’t normally how you would tag and categorize posts because you usually want much more broad and overarching categories. It’s a bit different in this case because these are movies and I’m trying to plan ahead for films with the same themes and what-have-you.
Also, if you haven’t upgraded to Wordpress 2.5, I highly suggest you do. It’s so, so, so, so much better than 2.2 or 2.3.
I agree. Years of not tagging my LiveJournal entries, and then several attempts to go back and re-tag them has taught me to tag every entry on my new blog so that they are always ordered and cataloged.
I’m having the same problem with my photography archives. I have so many from before tags were common in consumer software, going back and tagging is rough.
This has also motivated me to declutter the tags on my blog. I culled them down to less than 20 categories. I figure I can work from that and add or merge them as needed.
I guess as far as Blogger is concerned, you have to figure out whether you’re using your “labels” as categories, or as tags. Since I installed the Google search box on mine, I decided to go with categories.