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Wow, when did the "Tags" arrive?

Wow, when did the "Tags" arrive? I like websites that support tagging. It makes it easier to organize the things you are interested in or have done. It really multiplies both the usefulness and the ease-of-use of the site. In case you have not notice, they have tagging here now too. Popular TV.com Tags I just noticed them for the first time a few minutes ago. Had you noticed them very long ago or are they a really new feature? Tagging is a neat feature. As other techies have written, HTML/XHTML class attributes are uniquely suited for using as a place to store space-separated tags. People creating websites tend to know that, I think. I noticed a while ago that XSLT has some features that can make it do okay with dealing with space separated tags (in the categories sense) as well. Recently, I noticed that CSS has support for referencing elements that have certain words in their attributes - via a matching syntax in its selectors. In addition to checking for equality - one can also check for the existence of a word in an attribute value. Not a substring match but a real, honest-to-goodness word match. I think it is just fantastic that simple things in technology are combining with fads/trends on the web to enable popular features to be rolled into a site and rolled out to its users quickly and easily. I just hope C-Net adds RSS feeds, user-customizeable stylesheets, and increased support for XHTML tags soon. I taught myself pretty much all of HTML a long, long time ago and over the past several years have taught myself most of the complex - but extremely rewarding CSS (Cascading Stylesheets Language) that is the icing on its cake. I also learned XSLT back in the early 1990s. I would love to be able to use all of these things to customize my corner of the site and also keep track of what I have written. I may be missing something, but I cannot figure out how people figure out if they have reviewed the same show already or not. When you have only reviewed a score of shows or so, that is not too hard to do. I just do not see how the people who have reached a hundred or more shows keep going without repeating themselves. I think at that point, you need some kind of a personnel indexing system. A just-for-you database of all the shows you have watched, rated, and reviewed. Not a real database, of course. Just an index, really. An index to/into the shows you have reviewed and your own reviews/comments about them. I know I dream big. But TV.com is moving pretty fast these days!