The new Blogger's implementation of labels is a nice try, yet it is only a half-hearted implementation of the concept of labels and tagging.

So far I've tagged posts till late October, but notice that when searching posts in Blogger, you get a maximum of 20 results. So for example, although I've 30 posts under the label "women", when you search for this tag, you're only going to get the 20 latest posts on the topic.

On other blogging services, what would typically happen is that there'd be a link to go to the next page of results for posts with the label you're searching for, but Blogger doesn't have this (yet, if you're not using one of their special templates; many other New Blogger features don't work with old templates too, for some reason).

Also, you can't search for more than one label at a time, ie Searching within search results.

In any case, labels don't really work for me, because I often talk about multiple topics in a post. Also, as it is I can either remember roughly where everything is or do a Google/hard disk search of my archives to locate it.

It doesn't help that I've 5+ years worth of posts to label, and labelling is inconsistent (ie I may not label my posts methodically or uniformly, and not all suitable labels come to mind the first time).


Current label count:

blogging (1)
bs (3)
censorship (1)
cock (2)
comics (2)
conversations (22)
copyright (2)
creative (1)
crime (1)
economics (16)
education (4)
europeans (3)
extracts (35)
feedback (2)
food (1)
foreignlanguages (1)
forum (1)
funny (17)
gamebooks (2)
general (25)
guns (1)
hair (4)
hardware (1)
HWMNBN (3)
ideology (1)
intellectual (14)
law (6)
libertarianism (1)
links (19)
literature (3)
logic (2)
macsucks (1)
maths (1)
metacognition (1)
mmpr (1)
motivationalshit (1)
movies (6)
music (7)
nostalgia (1)
ntu (1)
nus (36)
observations (9)
pc (4)
personal (11)
pictures (24)
pscmicrochip (1)
psychology (1)
quotes (7)
rape (1)
referrals (3)
religion (19)
reporting (1)
review (5)
satire (1)
sedition (9)
sex (2)
sexism (5)
singapore (7)
slavery (2)
smu (1)
statistics (3)
technology (2)
theories (1)
travelogue (21)
women (30)
wth (9)
xmod (1)
yr (3)


Incidentally, republishing posts with labels is screwing up my feed.


Addendum: There's a "max-results" string you can add to the end as a workaround. So for example, entering http://gssq.blogspot.com/search/label/women?max-results=100 will give you the 100 latest posts labelled "women".

Tip from Hackosphere.