I have finally embraced tagging. Not quite in all its glory but in as much of its glory as I can handle with my life and my schedule. I’ve found tagging incredibly helpful in tracking down blogs or blog posts about a particular subject. I have some tag searches set up to feed me anything that is tagged with key words like "diet" and "webmd" and "onlinecommunity" or "communityindicator" "womenshealth" … stuff like that. I find interesting stuff through those tag searches. Sometimes I find pure garbage. Sometimes I find things that are tagged improperly. It’s the stuff that’s tagged improperly that is ticking me off right now.
There is one particular newspaper, located in my area of the world – a large newspaper (relatively speaking) – with a female blogger (cool!). This female blogger is tagging every single post she makes with the technorati tag "blogher" and I’m getting annoyed. Some of her posts are sort of interesting. But, I’m to the point now that I won’t even go to her blog because when I do, she’s not blogging about blogher, darn it. She’s drawing me there with the promise of "blogher" and she’s giving me – other stuff. (She did blog about Blogher… once… and it was awesome that she
promoted my partner in health that way. Very Cool. So she obviously has been
to Blogher. She knows about the website. She’s listed her blog in the Blogher blogroll, too)
I’m all for promoting the Blogher conference in any way shape or form, but this particular newspaper blogger is bugging me. I wish she’d quit it. She’s not actually promoting Blogher by tagging this way. I know, I sound all grouchy and like some sort of "tag police", whatever. It’s a pet peeve. Pet peeves make me grouchy.