Blogger has the best implementation for blog categorization amongst all contemporaries.
Without forcing a taxonomy (and structure) on the writer, blogger allows freeform "labeling". The text-box provides intellisense and auto-complete making the task simpler.
I also love the way the labels render to provide the blog navigation.
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I agree with you Sunil. Blogger's labels are really well implemented. Btw, did you know that Blogger was the last among the popular blogging engines to introduce labels? Before Blogger 2, I had a dirty hack on my blog for categories to show up - I'm glad that is gone now.
I wish I could toggle the label display between a list and a tagcloud view - like del.icio.us.
Btw, why is this post labeled Apple?
Sowmya, Would be intersting to know your hack.
Apple label ...poof .. gone .. :)
The hack:
At the end of each blog post, have an invisible, 1x1 px, transparent image that referred to a function on another website (blogger doesn't allow you to host scripts). The function takes the category names as params. So every time that image is referred to, the function parses the referrer URL for the categories. Another function (on the "other" website)creates a Set of category names and populates it in the div on your blogger sidebar.
Yuck!Groan!#(&@&@#!
Agreed. Blogger labels are neat. But once again the consistancy takes a beating among google products.
In gmail and blogger they are called labels, its folders in google docs, and tags in google reader which chose to go with the rest of the world.
Once i had to explain the idea of blogger/gmail labels to a person who knew well about to delicious's tagging idea.
Found some code online for the label tagcloud. Implemented on my blog. Code here.
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