Over at Blogsavvy, James Farmer has engaged a few Structured Blogging buffs in an interesting discussion. I’ve chimed in with a remark on a question I found on someone’s blog somewhere about searching blog posts by date using regular search engines. So far no-one tags blog post dates, do they?
I’ve yet to read the paper James gave on Centred Communication at Blogtalk Downunder last year – soon it will be time for the next one. This functions as a note to self to get on with reading all those papers…
And by the by, I wonder if the folks who developed this let the kids run their hands in the water. Pixels or no pixels, we’ve already got one of those walls.
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tags by date, hmmmm – interesting. Not a bad idea for certain applications. Thanks!
Since writing this note-post on the matter, I’ve gone a little deeper into these things, Jon. Google has a blogsearch facility, launched last year (others hot on its heels), which allows searching blogs for posts on certain subjects, yada yada, over a range of dates.
Evaluations of the blogsearch tool were rife around September. Some liked it, some found it missing quite a bit of stuff. It would be interesting to conduct a search for known posts (i.e. some you wrote yourself!! or an obscure one on an unusual topic) and see how it performs. John Tropea ( who I’m just about to add to the sidebar, Library Clips) may have already done something like that, perhaps check his blog out?
Thanks for dropping by!