When it rains, it pours. Literally. A tropical storm is merely passing the Philippines on its way to Taiwan, yet it's dumping a ton of rain on the islands. It seems that our electric company can't deal with rain (I personally think they can't deal with anything). We were again without power for a few hours this morning. What about my DSL connection? I've been suffering intermittent disconnections all day. It's kind of hard to do research without a connection, don't you think?
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To tag or not to tag, that is the question. I've been reading up on both the Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) plugin and the Simple Tagging for WordPress (STP) plugin. I've also read or heard that the WordPress developers were trying to incorporate tagging into the core files and aborted/postponed it until the next version.
For a while, it seemed like every blog I came across had tags of one kind or another tacked onto the ends of the articles. The last couple of days, I haven't spotted them on any blogs at all, even on the blogs where I saw them before.
Is tagging better than just using categories? It's something I need to think about.
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I am not a code monkey. Still, I like to dabble with PHP scripting on occasion, especially if I want to use it on the blog. When I write something that "just works", I like to share it like I did recently with the Google AdSense stuff. I have a couple more tricks up my sleeve that I haven't mentioned. I did briefly mention an odd/even kind of thing to use AdSense on different days than YPN ads. I haven't spent much time on it because I have yet to be approved for YPN (which is still in beta).
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I was approved by TLA (Text Link Ads), but I think it may be like forever before any advertisers become interested in my blog, if they ever do. That's okay… it's more of test than anything else, just like their "feedvertising". FeedBurner still hasn't approved feed advertising for my feeds and YPN hasn't approved me yet — they have feed advertising too. I don't care about being approved or not for whichever, I just don't like waiting on a yes or a no answer.
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A couple of other bloggers are under the mistaken impression that this is a popular blog. With a page rank of 4 and an Alexa rating that fluctuates between 50K and 100K, I just don't see it that way. I don't even have 200 feed reader subscribers yet. I may not be a newbie, but I'm no big-timer like Darren Rowse or Jeremy Schoemaker either. Perhaps some day I will be, if I ever get the desire to actually start a blog that fills a niche. Somehow, I seriously doubt it.
