It’s not a blog engine problem, it’s just convenient when you can use blog engines to do stuff that your blogging platform can’t do

I did a brief post on Guten tag a little while ago
http://libraryclips.blogsome.com/2005/09/27/guten-tag-does-meta-tag-search/

But it is really a blog engine problem, and I guess Wordpress should have tags as a core feature.

By the way, what do you think of Guten Tag ?

I understand that I don’t need to point to any service at all, as Wordpress has a plug-in where you can use tags instead of or as well as using categories…I would love to implement this but I’m at the mercy of my blog host (I have to wait for them to make it a plug-in that I can use)…if this was the case I would just use local tags, and Technorati would hopefully pick them up like it does for blog categories, this way I get a bit of exposure.

The reason to use del.icio.us is that it creates a title index for my posts, if I browse my blog categories in my blog you have to scroll full-text.

Also I don’t mind the bonus exposure to the del.icio.us audience.

For instance, Viabloga does that for years…

Thanks for talking Freshblog up in this context!! Much appreciated. Here’s my thoughts on these services :

I add technorati tags so that my posts are listed in a “current posts about” list. I don’t necessarily expect to get much traffic to older posts that way, but at least my stuff is out there & visible on technorati’s front page for that tag for a while. The del.icio.us component of these tags is the part that I’m relying on for navigation, retrieval &c.

Your request for a search within tags at technorati (in addition to the “search within sites” recently added) is a great idea that would increase the power of the tool a great deal!!