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Ted decided to brave the chilly temperatures of a Chicago winter and do a postie patrol. This was a pretty unique postie patrol since HP was sponsoring it and so there was sort of a theme and there was also much better give aways.

The funniest part of the whole video was when the postie had to tag herself with I (heart) HP on her forehead. Of course her comment after was that she should have done it earlier, because then more people would have probably helped her. Take a look at the video for yourself. It’s a little long.

I’m not sure how much I’d really like a postie patrol. Sure who wouldn’t like to get some cash and some HP gear and do some Digital Photo Printing, but it would depend a lot on what I had to do. I guess I’m just not adventurous like that. We’ll see. Either way, I’m pretty sure that PayPerPost won’t be choosing me for a postie patrol.

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Tagging is all the rave these days. All sorts of cool web 2.0 sites are using tagging to classify information. I can’t say that tagging isn’t a great idea. I actually really like a lot of the concepts of tagging.

The thing I don’t understand is what’s the difference between technorati tags on my blog and just categories which for all intensive purposes are tags. There’s even a Wordpress Category Technorati Tag Plugin. That’s a mouthful that doesn’t make much since. If I put a long list of tags at the bottom of my post am I really going to get any more traffic from technorati? My guess is no.

Now if you really want to see a great implementation of tagging using categories you should look at Wordpress.com’s tagging system. Take a look at the tag for my favorite (at least one of my favorite) TV shows So You Think You Can Dance. That tag has driven thousands of people to my blog. Now that’s the real power of tagging.