You might have noticed we've prettied ourselves up this week at Social Ch@nge - we've been listening to you and changing the site to work even better for you. There's a share button, an option to subscribe via email, reader's comments up front where you can see 'em, and there's a kinder, gentler 404 page. But we need some more help.

You see, Word Press offers you and me the option to categorize posts on the basis of either tags or categories.   The benefits of one versus the other are actually pretty complex - in fact, when we asked our technical support, his exact description of the debate ended:  
"I am not an expert.   And experts debate endlessly archival and retrieval techniques...occasionally come to blows at conferences, knocking off one another's panama hats...duels are fought by candlelight in the returns rooms of tenured collections, the survivors winning the right to catalogue as they see fit..."

Well, you get the idea. Sometimes it's easier to simplify the difference between tags and categories, and which one will work better for you. So here is the simplified version, panama hats not included (More...)