Comments - categories-vs-tags-in-blogs-and-blog-editors - Duncan Mackenzie .NET

RE: Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors

Garrick Van Buren — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:29:00 GMT

On all the blogs I run, tags and categories are synonymous.

In fact, my WP-CaTT plugin considers categories Technorati tags. I'm using MarsEdit for posting, and though I'd like to be able to add categories (tags) within it, I'm fine adding them separately.

RE: Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors

Andrew Jaffe — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:47:00 GMT

In my blog, categories represent a top-level (and top-down) categorization with just a single layer; I've also started using tags to, well, tag individual posts with specific information. So those are completely free-form, although from looking at my tag cloud you can see that many things do repeat.

As far as the outside world is concerned, both tags and categories get pinged in technorati.

The only issue at the moment is that my blog editor -- MarsEdit -- doesn't know about the movable type tag implementation, so I use a plugin which converts keywords to tags (which seem like the same thing to me, anyway).

RE: Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors

Haacked — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:04:00 GMT

Hi Duncan, I tried to comment (using Firefox), but it failed. I posted my thoughts here instead

RE: Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors

rajesh — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:11:00 GMT

your website is all screwed up in internet explorer 6.0 though it looks good in FF

bias ?

RE: Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors

Martin Gordon — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:28:00 GMT

I wrote about switching to tags about a year and a half ago. I don't tag my posts in my blog as "robustely" as I use Technorati tags, so there is a small semblance of organization. With tags, though, I feel that there is less of a psychological barrier in adding more tags and I feel I can be a bit more specific with tags than I can be with categories.

RE: Categories vs. Tags in Blogs and Blog Editors

oil portraits — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:13:00 GMT

If these two terms are synonymous then that means if you say meta-tagging in blogs is also the same as meta-categorizing. I don’t think that makes sense. First of all, I haven’t met any meta-categorizing term that’s associated to blogging. However meta-tagging has been used lately and has been proven to create a significant impact on blogs.