Now that I have got Postie working for e-mail postings, and my theme widget-ready thanks to King Text, I am focusing my full attention on tagging with Ultimate Tag Warrior. I’ve already eliminated categories from my theme, replacing them with tags.

Folksonomy is really moving forward in the direction of tags, rather than categories. I’ve been using a list of just a couple dozen categories for a long time, and I often found myself slapping generic categories onto posts rather than creating a new category for what I was actually writing about. I’d like to be able to use a tag cloud to see what I write about most, and to identify what posts are really about - “PayPal,” for example, rather than “internet,” and “assholes” rather than “people.”

Tagging 3500 posts is going to be a monumental task, because I have to read, or at least skim, every single post. So far I’ve worked backwards up to April 2006…but I’ve been blogging for more than five years. So this is going to take a while.

I am testing my post-by-email function. I’m pretty sure it will work for LiveJournal, and I think it will work on WordPress, but I’m not 100% sure. I don’t really have anything useful to say, I just wanted to try out my email posting! (I am sending this to two addresses, rather than posting to WordPress and letting Live+Press do the dirty work.) Whee!

I post in my blog every day, I like to do it and it’s a habit now. People participating in NaBloPoMo are posting in their blog every day this month, so there’s obviously a desire from other people to do the same thing. But for a lot of people, it’s hard to remember to post every single day. But there’s an online diary service that makes that a little easier. Every day (or week or month, your choice) you get an e-mail from InboxJournal.com and you can reply to that e-mail to post to your blog! You can post privately or leave things open, or you can share with others directly. My only word of caution is that if you have trouble signing up with Firefox, use IE - after that you should be able to access the site with Firefox. It’s a good way to remember to blog on a regular basis if that’s what you want to do.

A note for my regular readers: I occasionally password-protect posts on sensitive subjects. If you are a regular reader and you don’t already know the password (or if you forgot it), drop me an e-mail and I’ll give it to you. Don’t be shy about asking!

Not just who I voted for in the 2006 Bloggies, but why!
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I feel like sharing with you all my nominations for the 2006 Bloggies. As you may notice, I got bored before the end.
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Ooookay…I think I have successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.0. It seems like everything has gone okay. The only thing I am not sure about is the Feedburner stuff; the plugin is not compatible with WP2 and the workaround was a little confusing for me. Hopefully nobody is reading with wp-rss.php or wp-rss2.php directly, because I’m not sure what to do with those, but the main URLs - /feed and the legacy full.xml - seem to redirect okay. I am really going to miss Live+Press until it is updated to work with WP2; I will go back to manually copying my entries into LiveJournal. But unteins has always been pretty responsive in Live+Press development so I’m sure something will happen with that eventually. There are a few other plugins I have yet to test - Text Replace and The Execution of All Things being important ones I’d like to get back. But for now it seems to have gone okay, I think/hope.

Nothing is quite as much fun as seeing this on my screen:

Done copying data from Berkeley DB to your SQL database! All went well.

Okay, there are things that are slightly more fun, but it’s always pleasing when a conversion goes well. This is over at Cyber Dyke Blog by the way, where I am using a commercially-licensed version of Movable Type. (I switched to WP over here so I could hide certain posts, not because I don’t like MT!) For some reason the control panel on the cydyblog.net domain, DirectAdmin, wouldn’t let me delete the existing cydyblog_wordpress database (I had used WP there for about two days) and wouldn’t let me do a DROP DATABASE in PHPMyAdmin. So I just dropped all the tables from that database and used its connection information for the MT configuration. The conversion took a while, but at the end I got that lovely line you see above, so everything went well! It’s a little odd seeing tables with the prefix mt_ in a database called cydyblog_wordpress but I don’t intend to actually go into there much anyway, so it doesn’t matter.

I love being a blog geek!

A little while ago I made a post comparing BlogExplosion and BlogClicker. At the time, I illustrated what was wrong with BlogClicker and said I’d be spending more time on BlogExplosion. Today I got an e-mail saying BC had been improved, so I went back to check it out. Sure enough, they’re looking a lot better! There are blogmarks now, and you can comment on sites too. There’s no way yet to see who’s blogmarked you, but that is scheduled for the next upgrade. The credits/impressions thing and auto-assign are still a bit confusing to me, but I’m really enjoying my BC surfing and I’ll figure the rest of it out later! If you haven’t already signed up with BlogClicker, you can do so here. It’s great for anybody, including LiveJournal users, who are interested in finding new blogs to read. Have fun!

Through some bizarre fluke, I managed to win the Best Lesbian Weblog award in the Queeries! It was announced a few days ago but I was waiting to see if they’d even contact me about it. Nobody did, so I’ll just say it here! I don’t know how I managed to come out on top. There seem to be no prizes associated with the awards - not even a graphic for the winning sites - but it’s still nice to know that the readers of one of my favorite queer blogs picked mine as the best lesbian blog.