Labels at last! Labels at last! Thank God Almighty I have labels at last!
It always struck me as a tad unseemly to complain about a free service, but the lack of post labels on Blogger has been the one thing that has tempted me to move my blog elsewhere. Without labels, older posts just kind of vanish into the ether of the "Archives" at the right, and most visitors are unlikely to feel much motivation to go digging in there. So the magicians who visit this blog and find hardly any magic-related posts may be disinclined to go searching for my occasional posts on that subject.
No longer. Blogger has finally updated their service with post labels and I have wasted no time in categorizing my stuff and sticking the labels at right. For instance, I have a bunch of magic posts (forty-five, if my labeling is accurate), including six David Blaine posts. The ability to categorize and make easily searchable large amounts of data is one of the hallmarks of the modern Web and it has been a major failing of Blogger that basic tagging hasn't been available until now.
The ability to label posts is pretty fundamental to blogging, and it facilitates certain types of posting. For instance, I threatened long ago to start posting mini-reviews of all the films I see. But the lack of labeling discouraged this enterprise. Blogger didn't offer any way for me to point readers easily to a complete list of all my reviews, and I knew that once posted the reviews would quickly disappear into the ether. I actually considered starting a separate blog just for movie reviews.
All that has changed. It's a new day at PeaceLove's Musings! Stay tuned.
3 comments:
How do you put the lables in the sidebar?
TF
nevermind, figured it out. Sorry to bother you.
TF
Glad you got it figured out! Blogger blew it with their directions, and it took me a while to figure it out, too. For readers in a similar situation, you need to go to your "Template" page and "Update your Template" (or maybe it's "Replace your Template"). I actually had to replace my existing template with...the same template, except that the new one has a very nice WYSIWYG editor which includes the option of displaying your labels to the right.
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