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nda

Which one do I use in the email subject?

The subject syntax, with the mandatory double parenthesis, is not intuitive and difficult to remember.

I would have preferred a more intuitive syntax in the body of the post. Any line starting with the keyword Tags is a list of tags, example:

Tags: Apple, Gadgets.

The two syntaxes are not exclusive though and both could coexist.

"1. People might actually type tags: apple in the body of their post normally. So are they trying to tag it or are they just typing that text? Should we remove it from the body or leave it there? It's not clear. So the parenthesis removes ambiguity."

I proposed to consider as tags, lines starting with the keyword "Tags:" which clearly shows an intention to provide tags. It is very unlikely that anyone doing that would do so for any other purpose than tagging.

"2. Putting it in the subject makes more sense than in the body. The subject is where you type words that describe what's in the body, which is what tags are. I think it's intuitive this way. In email, we use the "to" address to specify where to post the email. We use the "from" to determine who you are. And we use "subject" for tags."

This is the whole debate about meta versus content. Google prefers to discard meta-tags and prefers to analyze content.

In fact we can argue that we provide tags because current the software is not capable of deriving meaning from the content and therefore cannot automatically provide the tags. Therefore tags are really more part of the content than anything else from a semantic standpoint.

The two modes are not incompatible, providing both would enable users to make their choice.

Final question: I can get links, bold, and italics to appear using this bit of code, but not colours. Is that happening because of a decision at your end to keep everything in the tones you chose? Or did I mis-enter the code? I'm happy either way, but I would like to know if the error was mine.

Thanks for your patience,
SueH

1. Can we please get detailed traffic stats to our blogs? I'm guessing it shouldn't be difficult since you just need to create an interface for the Woopra stats you're already getting.

2. While we're at that, can we also get stats on our RSS feed subscribers?

Could you please explain how this whole thing works?

Anyway being able to tag via ((t:xy)) is a great thing even now.

I'm with Sachin on this one.

Besides, it's like you said: from a blogger's perspective, false positives are not too bad as long as you can remove them easily.

Personally, I've always thought that entering tags by hand was a royal pain in the bottom. What are computers for, if not to help with stuff like this?

I think it would be awesome if you guys would be the first ones to innovate in this area (ok, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself and someone else has done it, but you have the public exposure to pull it off ;)).

Just my 2 cents ;)

Thanks

"You can add tags in the editor on new/edit post the same was as in an email message. In the title just type ((tag:hello world)). The tags will be added once you click save."

also mean it will work in the bookmarklet pop-up? I am going to try in a second. ;-)

Also, WordPress supports tags -- so why convert tags to categories? Why not just Posterous tags -> WP tags?

Also, did I say "thank you"? I didn't? I meant to.

Another thing, if I have several tags (in Posterous), by which two of them are having correlation with WordPress Categories, then only the first tags is used as Categories.

Anyway, if Posterous' tags become WordPress' tags that would make the Autopost feature complete, IMHO.

There isn't currently a way to add tags directly from the manage page

Any chance you'll allow scrollable DIVs anytime soon? I tend to use them a fair bit when posting lyrics and the like, but when Posterous breaks those DIVs, it's a rather large dealbreaker for me.

Thus, given the categories:
One alpha
Two Beta
Three charlie

a post of:
This is a test ((Tags: One Alpha, Two Beta, Three charlie, Snow))

would be assigned to categories Two Beta and Three charlie only.

The case mismatched One Alpha and the no matching category Snow would be dropped.

I do not know if there is a way to also add to the original email to Posterous that will be converted to Wordpress tags.