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Google Upgrades Blogger

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bout-time dept.

thetan writes "Google has announced the first major upgrade to Blogger since taking over the creaking old platform. Still in beta, the new service offers a tie-in to your Google Account, dynamic pages, separate comment feeds, new layouts, an apparent merger with Google's Page Creator for WYSIWYG editing, integration of feeds, public/private access control and — of interest to bloghackers — tag-based labels for categories. Take the tour."

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  1. tags for future and past posts? by amrust · · Score: 2, Interesting

    tag-based labels for categories.

    Anybody know if this will be implemented for future entries only, or if you can go back and tag your old posts?

    It would be convenient if they added a way to search your blog for keywords, and tag all matching entries.

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  2. Re:When to use Tags (versus Categories) by DerekLyons · · Score: 3, Interesting
    As regular readers of both I MUCH prefer categories. If I'm interested in what one of my blog heros has to say on a broad topic I have a lot more success and fun browsing through everything in a category than by trying to figure out some arbitrary keyword.

    Categories also allow your users to read 'virtual blogs'. On several blogs that I read regularly, I don't have the main page bookmarked - but rather one or more category pages. This allows me to read entries on say, geocaching, while avoiding entries on cats.