In an effort to get on the tagging bandwagon I contacted the folks over at BlogJet about adding support for tagging into their wonderful posting tool.  In true developer style, they emailed me back asking how I would like to see it implemented.  The obvious answer is to add another dropdown next to the post categories box; the values could be stored in a simple XML file that has an interface via the preferences dialog…selecting the tags would inject the necessary html to the end of the post.  In a perfect (blogging) world, blog engines could start supporting tags and make them accessible via a web service, though this is probably a bit far out on the horizon as tagging is still relatively bleeding edge.

So my question is this:  How would you implement tagging via posting tools?  Should the tool take care of pinging the necessary sites notifying them of updates?  What about inline tagging (tags embedded in the post itself instead of in the footer)…maybe have a configurable whitelist of words that are automatically parsed and tagged as you type the post (either just the first occurence or all occurences), again stored as an XML doc?  A simple scenario could just generate tags based on the post categories.  These are a few of the ideas I’ve had, any other suggestions are greatly appreciated and I’ll pass them on to the folks over at BlogJet.

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