Labels
WARNING! I wrote this post because I didn't want to get sucked in to the habit of writing life-altering pieces every night. See last nights piece on "origins" to alter your life. Do not expect your life to alter following the reading of tonight's piece.
As I wrote the title of this post, I thought people might get excited. "O! Another prying post into the heart and soul of species!" No, friends (and foes), I am not here to talk about generalizing, name-calling, or Newman's Own dressings. I'm here to question the purpose of blogger-beta's "labels."
I see the use on other sites. Search for keywords, find item quickly. Makes sense.
But here, blogger's already given us the fabulous "search this blog" featurette, which I adore and use to my heart's content. I have found in the past few weeks, that the use of labels just balloons an already busy reader with more useless text. The nice feature is that it's one-click searching, but it requires the author to reduce her complex and developed essay into a mere half dozen words or so? Uncalledfor!
I may or may not label my posts in the future. Do not be offended.
2 comments:
I'll defend labels less for their practicality and more for the insight they provide into the psyche of the writer. I like seeing what the author thinks the important aspects of the piece are--because a reader might interpret something else as being more relevant. I also find that labels are a fun yet subtle way of injecting additional humor or information into a blog entry--your "labels" label is a good example of this, as I found it amusing.
i see. (said the blind man as the deaf mute listened intently and the parapalegic came running to see what the commotion was about)
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