Tagging and stuff 

Funny that Dave should talk in his podcast today about a relationship between OPML and tags, because not an hour before the podcast was posted, I was in a brainstorming meeting where I thought tags might be the answer to a problem. I had just that moment promised myself to look further into tagging as a possible way of slicing and dicing content for different audiences and for various purposes.

Now I don't yet see the exact relationship between tags and OPML that Dave said dawned on him yesterday (though I'd like to). When I looked at Niall Kennedy's OPML file, it looked like he may have organized the output to index his blog posts by blog category but not by tag.

So, I'll be noodling around with this a little this weekend, seeing what I can do with Expression Engine. I don't know. I pretty much have to use EE, which currently doesn't support tags, but it does have very robust categories with the ability to nest an unlimited number of subcategory levels. That might make tags unnecessary, but I don't have the kind of brain that can abstract a thing like that. I have to make examples that mean something to me, before it will sink in deep, then I go from there. Maybe I'll report in if I figure out something.