Help: Titles, tags, categories

TITLES

I didn’t give titles to the arti­cles from my old alohapundit.com blog. I was younger and anti-blogging new­bie. I imported these arti­cles on 5 April 2008 and I have been replac­ing the “Post num­ber” titles and related posts lists to these articles.

TAGS

I post every arti­cle arti­cle with mul­ti­ple tags or key­words to help users find related posts easily.

Tags can cross-connect posts to other related tags.

There’s a list of rel­e­vant linked tags at the end of each article.

The tag URL is http://billso.com/tag/key­word — use a dash if the tag includes spaces.

Some sam­ple tags include http://billso.com/tag/honolulu and http://billso.com/tag/value-chain

On 29 Jan­u­ary 2008, I enabled link­able tags in all my blog posts. If a word is iden­ti­cal to a tag, that word will appear as a link to a tag page. This fea­ture was more of a nui­sance than a help, so I dis­abled it on 16 May 2008.

TAG CLOUDS

Upgrad­ing to Word­Press 2.3 required some changes in the tag cloud and tag archives pages (28 Sep­tem­ber 2007):

• Tag archive pages are now labeled with their tag name.
• The tag cloud dis­plays the most fre­quent tags that I’ve used in my articles.
• See my 25 Jan­u­ary 2007 for a dis­cus­sion of tag clouds.
• Tech­no­rati has a good dis­cus­sion of what tags are and how they can be used here.

CATEGORIES

I use cat­e­gories to sort my arti­cles into dif­fer­ent feeds and pages for my courses. A post may have 1 to 4 categories.

A list of cat­e­gories appears beneath the title for each post.

Cat­e­gories are orga­ni­za­tional tools that impose a hier­ar­chy on my arti­cles, based upon the infor­ma­tion sys­tems courses that I teach at Hawaii Pacific University.

Thus, cat­e­gories are dif­fer­ent from tags, as dis­cussed here.

COURSES

Until May 2008, my courses at HPU have their own ded­i­cated links on this site. (Links changed 3 July 2007, and the RSS feeds were shut down in March 2008).

See the courses page for more information.