08.23.05
Tag Cloud
Operating on the theory that most people who come to my blog don’t particularly care when something was posted, but focus rather on the subject matter, I’ve eliminated all links to date-based archives and inserted a tag cloud into the sidebar. This has the additional benefit of trimming the length of my sidebar significantly, making it somewhat more likely that people will notice stuff like the AJAX poll. Another cool feature: in addition to clicking on a tag to see posts on that subject, you can view tag intersections with just a little bit of manual effort. The format for tag intersections is http://www.acetylene.net/tag/tag1+tag2: for example, apple+podcasts. Maybe sometime in the near future I’ll work up a way to do that without having to type anything into the address bar.
The plugin I used to add tag support to WordPress is Ultimate Tag Warrior. This description of the process was a big help, too.
