Since I moved my blog over to WordPress from MovableType, I’ve been using the social bookmarking service del.icio.us to tag and organize my posts. Blogging software typically has a built-in form of tagging commonly know as categories, but categories pre-date true, modern tagging (aka, folksonomy). In addition, categories are very limited, not social and time consuming to create and manage. Hence my use of del.icio.us.

The account that I have created to manage my post tags on del.icio.us is called ZoingerPosts. When del.icio.us was first launched, it was total “flat” — that is, it listed all tags together in alphabetical order or by frequency. However, as del.icio.us’ service matured, they have added ways for users to create a form of hierarchy through a feature called tagged bundles. I wrote a post on tagged bundles a while back which explained how to create them — which with everything on del.icio.us is not exactly obvious (this is part of del.icio.us’ charm!).

When you browse to my ZoingerPosts account, the page displays on the left hand side a chronological list of my posts. This is useful, but not nearly as useful as the right hand side. On the right side, a list of all the tags I have created is grouped first by the tagged bundles (and their associated tags) and then by a list of the remaining tags (that is, those tags not included in a tagged bundle). Here’s a partial screen shot of the right hand side.

Overall, I’m finding this to be a really handy tool to sort through my list of archived posts. For example, to find the post that I had written on tagged bundles, all I had to do was do a find on the ZoingerPosts page for the word tagged (i.e., cntrl + F followed by tagged in Firefox). This changed the focus of my browser to the tag tagged.bundles in the list of tags. Clicking on the tagged.bundles tag opened up this page listing my post on del.icio.us’ tagged bundles feature.