Jiglu - automated tagging for bloggers
Yesterday I read about Jiglu, a plug-in for blogs that reads content and creates tagging data for it, automatically. Tagging is an important, necessary, and occassionally tedious activity that people with blogs carry out, and it’s hard to say whether you’ve done it intelligently or not. Tags are used by people reading sites (for example you might look at all the content I wrote about “web 2.0″) but they’re used a lot by software as well: sites like technorati, Google’s blog search and a host of others use tags as a way to navigate and understand what content is about, and it’s a popular way into websites as a result. So it drives a lot of traffic, which makes it important, and none of us know if we’re doing it well or not.
I therefore installed Jiglu yesterday, and so far I’m pretty impressed. It’s extracted useful tags (more than I would, which I guess is good) about people, things, places, and created a little panel that you can see on the right hand side. But it’s also created active links in my text, so you can go straight from a mention of the word IASH (I do hope it’s highlighted that for me) to all my entries about them.
It looks quite useful, in a geeky kind of way. I’ll keep an eye on how it goes, but if it improves my tagging and traffic numbers, it can’t be bad.
