Turning on "tags"
Jun. 17th, 2005 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearIf you've been to the home page, you'll see that LJ has a new feature called "tags". these are rather open-ended ways of marking your blog entries as you want them to, and is rather ingenious. One interesting thing is that you can actually set it so that others can tag your entries for you, and even create new tags (or delete tags) that apply to your LJ (as in, they can affect your tags for your entries, but can't blithely attach their own tagset to your entries unless you give them permission to add them).
Once this is done, tags become filters you can use in the URL, so that http://www.livejournal.com/users/acroyear70/tag/music/rock is only those entries tagged as "rock" related.
I've created 2 tagging types and have opened up tagging to "friends".
The first type is subject matter, ranging from music, celt, geek (high-tech stuff, not geeking out on sci-fi subjects which i've labeled...), fandom, politics, etc...these will be more likely set by me.
The second is ratings using slashdot's schemes. These I leave to you -- if you want to rate a post i've made as interesting, funny, overrated, etc, simply use the tags that are "/." prefixed.
now these are independent of any other feature in LJ at present. you can not
note: these tags are not "html-like" tags in the sense of "lj-cut". most 3rd party tools (like deepest sender) aren't yet "tag aware".
Once this is done, tags become filters you can use in the URL, so that http://www.livejournal.com/users/acroyear70/tag/music/rock is only those entries tagged as "rock" related.
I've created 2 tagging types and have opened up tagging to "friends".
The first type is subject matter, ranging from music, celt, geek (high-tech stuff, not geeking out on sci-fi subjects which i've labeled...), fandom, politics, etc...these will be more likely set by me.
The second is ratings using slashdot's schemes. These I leave to you -- if you want to rate a post i've made as interesting, funny, overrated, etc, simply use the tags that are "/." prefixed.
now these are independent of any other feature in LJ at present. you can not
- have a tag setting automatically apply an icon. if you use a particular icon for a subject you have to tag it and set the icon separately
- have an RSS feed only show those items with a particular tag (allowing one to turn tags into full categories)
- have your friends page only show those entries from a particular user that have a particular tag (like only show entries of mine that are "politics" or "/. interesting"
- have your tags automatically set based on the friends filter set for the post or vice-versa
- have nested categories automatically; as in, i can create a tag "music" and a tag "music/rock", but they are separate tags so that by looking at "/music" i don't see those in "/music/rock" (unless I tag them that as well).
note: these tags are not "html-like" tags in the sense of "lj-cut". most 3rd party tools (like deepest sender) aren't yet "tag aware".
