Tags ... someday?

If you're a regular blog reader, you may have noticed that some blogs have little descriptions of their subject matter beneath the blog. This isn't necessarily handy for the end-user (you, the reader) unless you want to see everything a blogger had to say about "Tacoma" or "TV." And that can be helpful when you're checking out a new site or trying to find a certain post that's been archived.

The tags are especially helpful, however, for management of a blog, as I am beginning to discover. Kevin (Happy Golden Birthday!) has been managing FeedTacoma.com which takes blog posts labeled "Tacoma" for a variety of local blogs and publishes the headline and first few lines there. That way the blog would show that I liked One Heart Cafe, but not Studio 60, which has no practical bearing on the local scene at all.

Well, this is not a feature that Blogger currently offers, which is too bad. But the change is in beta right now, so I hope to wait it out and enable it as soon as the revamped Blogger goes live. (Which could be 20 months from now for all I know. It's been that long since TiVo promised TiVo2Go for Macs and still nothing. Stupid TiVo, making me dependent on you and then being so callous with my feelings.)

There are some features of Blogger I do like, and I'm guessing that once Blogger is integrated with my Gmail account I'm going to be even more reliant on Blogger. But until then, you'll just have to read each post and figure out for yourself if you want to read the whole thing or not.