With the announcement of the 1.9.5 release of Subtext, I thought I should talk about the new tagging and tag cloud feature. You can see it in action in the sidebar of my site. To implement tagging, we followed the model I wrote about before. Tags do not replace categories in Subtext. Instead, we adopted an approach using Microformats. We see categories as a structural element and navigational aid, whereas we see tags as meta-data. For example, in the future, we might consider implementing sub-categories like WordPress does. The other reason not to implement tags as categories is that...
Duncan Mackenzie writes about the issue of Categories vs Tags in blogs and blog editors. I tried to comment there with my thoughts, but received some weird javascript errors. I’ve thought alot about the same issues with Subtext. Orginally my plan was to simply repurpose the existing category functionality by slapping a big tag sticker on its forehead and from henceforth, a category was really a tag. One big rename and bam!, I’m done. But the API issue Duncan describes is a problem. After more thinking about it, I now plan to make tags a first class citizen alongside categories. ...