- i went to see the decemberists last night. (entry backdated to save your flist from spam.)
cindyjade, the decemberists are playing in asheville in september! we should go.
- yesterday afternoon there was a bench-clearing brawl during the tigers/royals game. very very early this morning i tivoed sportscenter. slightly less early this morning, i spent fifteen minutes watching the same ten second clip of kyle farnsworth, aka the best ass in baseball, bodyslam one of the royals' relievers. if there's a better way to start a monday, i think it probably involves not having to go to work.
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- i am ridiculously in love with tags on livejournal. they appeal to my crazy obsessive organizational nature, and i've seen a lot of people ask "what's the point? can't i just use memories to do the same thing?", to which i reply: yeah, you can. but while i'd love to be able to find every post i've made about college basketball, i'm also against clutter and i never wanted to clutter up my memories with them, because they weren't important enough.
tags, though - tags i can apply to just about anything i ever posted in my journal, right down to the specific kind of meta that the post was, or the specific book i'm talking about, and it's neat and clean (although i must say that it took far too much effort to MAKE tags look nice and clean in my journal, which is annoying) and easy to access. and to be perfectly honest, i find them easier to view than memories - i can tag all my links posts based on what fandoms i recced, and instead of having to click through 85 posts, you can just go to my journal, click "recs:hp" in the side bar, and only have to search through posts in which i recced hp to find the story you want.
it isn't perfect, but nothing ever is when it's first developed; it takes trial and error to figure out how to do things right.
here's how i see tags: they're a cataloguing system. memories is a bookmarks system, tags are for cataloguing. cataloguing is about breaking down content and marking it with relevant keywords; a thorough, complex tags system should work, essentially, as a card catalog in a library. i've never found anyone's memories who did that for me, with the possible exception of
makesmewannadie.
i know that pretty much everyone reads my journal through their flist, but if you check out my journal main page and scroll down, you'll see a nested list of all the tags that i've used in my journal. the list, of course, is incomplete, as i'm still in the process of back-tagging the 2+ years of archives i have, but if you're looking for something from the last six months, it's probably somewhere in there. i put the list there for you guys, not for me, and as i add more of the links posts to the recs categories, it should be helpful. at least i hope it will be helpful.
the final thing i have to say about tags is this: i wish i could easily integrate my flickr tags with my livejournal tags. two community-based sites, both using tags, but there's no way to integrate them. i could, of course, create a text box and add my tags by hand, but then i'd have to edit it every time i want to change my flickr tags, and that's annoying. but tags! two sites with tags! why can't i integrate my flickr tags into my livejournal? i have no idea. but i wish i could.
my brain is overflowing with meta about the development and application of new technologies in the information world that i can't figure where to start talking about it.
- i am so exhausted and loopy today.
eight days left at work! EIGHT DAYS! *wild flailing*
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Also, re: tags. I see you have put up links on your sidebar, which is excellent, thank you. But am I missing something as far as tags go? I just went through and tagged all my fic (which is the only thing I'm planning on tagging for the time being), in case memories go down again. However, once I've tagged something, is there a way on LJ for me to search by tags? Am I missing something really obvious here?
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which is another annoying thing i should have mentioned. there are some newer layouts than component that make it easy to enable a viewable tags list, but in component i had to muck around with the code by hand to get something to show, which was frustrating, to say the least.
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Yes, it is my layout, and okay, that makes sense. I knew there had to be some way for me at least to get to them, I just couldn't figure it out. I'm probably not going to bother with doing something viewable for other people since, in theory, I'm going to get my own webspace up relatively soon.
Thanks, darling!
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Maybe I should try a couple and see how I like it...
<3
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my biggest problem wasn't that i disliked how tags worked, but rather how they looked in my journal. you can look at my journal, or jaci's, or
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or
fruit, jar
your choice. :D
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Also, I'm so glad you got the highlights TiVo'd. Make sure Sid sees it too, yeah? I couldn't find her number last night.
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It is not seriously the best highlight ever? *dies laughing*
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library career romances (http://www.jenw.org/home.htm).
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i want to start collecting them!
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