Entries tagged 'tags'

An earlier iteration of my blog software had an autocomplete widget for adding tags for when I was writing a post, but somewhere along the line I lost track of that version of the software, and I’ve just been winging it when I added tags to posts since then. Yesterday I ran across a reference to Awesomplete which is a lightweight autocomplete widget by Lea Verou, and now I’ve plugged it into the couple of places where I add tags.

I need to do some more behind-the-scenes work to clean up the tags in the system now, but this should help keep me on track in terms of knowing when I’m actually creating a new tag instead of using an existing one. (Like I could never remember if I have been using the “book” or “books” tag and would always have to look it up.)

upcoming.org got some love from its creator, so now you can add private events, among a bunch of other new features. i added a bunch of upcoming events at the los angeles central library.

i had been thinking of building a little event widget for myself, but now i don’t think i’ll need to. at some point i’ll work some magic so my upcoming events show up here, along with my del.icio.us entries.

so i sort of understand the fascination with tags (although i haven’t provided any way for browsing my entries here by tag), but it seems a shame that the common implementations eschew spaces within tags.

one thing that is fun about tags is that they can provide a bit of meta-commentary about an entry, sort of like a title sometimes does.