Giving in to the concepts of mediated experiences in the web2.0 environment, I’ll ask the question “How does using Flock make you feel?”

Well, here’s the thing: until Flock properly integrates the new tagging features of WordPress 2.3, I’m probably not going to use it. Clicking the tags that Flock generated for this post will take you to Technorati rather than a list of similarly-tagged entries on my site. While I won’t say that’s entirely useless, it’s not how I’ve implemented tags here.

The alternative to using Flock’s tagging feature would be coming back here to edit each post and add my own tags, which kind of defeats the purpose.

And therein is the challenge for Flock and other browser-based blogging tools: they need to duplicate everything I can do in the WordPress admin interface so I don’t feel I have to revisit each post in said interface to make changes. I honestly doubt that will ever happen (especially considering some of the plug-ins I use), so my gut tells me that I won’t be using Flock on a regular basis.

Giving in to the concepts of mediated experiences in the web2.0 environment, I’ll ask the question “How does using Flock make you feel?”

If you’re going to dive in head-first, I should allow you the honor and be prepared to a) call paramedics or b) mirror your leap.

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