Why not use tags in your email to enhance the navigation of your site.
Tagging and email-blogging (or moblogging)
Just an idea to use tagging in a way that is usable when you email-blog or moblog.
It basically comes down to that the text of a post gets scanned for double-quotes. As soon as it finds beginning and end-double-quotes like “patatos” it will take this as a tag for that post. I’m convinced it is very easy to use for writers, and very helpful for readers that want to read somebody’s contributions about a specific tag or better “topic”, and maybe more.
The nice thing about it is that it is very intuitive. Readers as well as writers will understand the meaning of the double-quote. It is a bit harder to see the consequence. Of course, the tagging of double-quote content can be automated. And with that we have a navigation-system that is not very controlled, but should work, if the double-quotes are used in a good way.
There are already an amazing number of “tagging” plugins available for “WordPress”. The one that I’m looking at right now is “Ultimate Tag Warrior” written by “Christine Davis”. There are an amazing amount of possibilities, that I really have to study to understand them. The nice thing about this collection of tagging-plugins is that the source-code is very readable.
Is it working?
Not at this moment. Right now I’m just stating the idea. It is not that hard to develop this scanning of the post for double-quotes and making those things tags. It will be there soon. I’ll keep you posted. To grasp the consequences is something else.
Think of possibilities and consequences. Of course, the double-quote tags could have an own color in the post. As long as it doesn’t disturb the readability of the actual post, that’s fine. I think it should be up to the writer to put this on or off.
What I want to make clear is that “tag-scanning” on double-quotes can be a very nice way to fill your tag-database. Extremely useful when you are emailing your posts, but also very convenient in most other situations. You can define your links in an intuitive way. How to use a database like that is another thing. There are a lot of tagging experts proposing a lot of creative uses for tagging-collections. The Ultimate Tag Warrior has lots of possibilities, for example.
Look at the double-quotes
In this post, I used the double-quotes as I would do in writing a post with “Tagging-Double-Quotes” ON. The follow-up on this post will have for sure a tag with “tagging” in double-quotes. And so the link is there.
