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Those of you who have started using this new tags thing LJ has, what is the advantage of this over memories? Is it pretty much the same thing? I've just recently started going back through my entries to put stuff in memories and so now I am wondering if i should do tags instead, or should I do both?

Also, in a bit of weirdness, I clicked on a Where Am I link and instead of Madcow I am now on the Roastbeef cluster. I'm guessing it is because of my account's status change. but I find it kind of disturbing to go from Madcow to Roastbeef, because you shouldn't turn mad cows into food! And also, I'm now curious to know if all their clusters have bovine names...

*edit* So, my curiousity got the better of me & I started trying to research LiveJournal cluster names. Apparently everyone switching clusters is a normal thing as they upgrade and add new equipment. When they get new equipment they transfer everyone off one of the older machines. Also, the clusters are all actually two machines, so madcow consists of the server Mad and the server Cow. They originally started with South Park names but for reasons unknown to me (i.e. I didn't find it in my google search) they switched to meat. They used to have Cartman, Kenny, Santa, etc. then for a brief while it was colors-blue, green, indigo, etc. So now it's meat-madcow, roastbeef, tenderloin, filetmignon, soybean (?meat for the vegetarians?), porkchop, etc. Not that this really means anything, I just found it interesting.

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I'm on Filetmignon. Tender yummy beef!

mmmm....me too.

I used to be on Santa.

No, because I used to be on Ribeye, but now I'm on Soybean. Hmmm, how appropriate, since I'm marrying into a farm family.

It really depends. I don't like memories, because I would rather flag entries as I go rather than going to a separate page just to see them. I'm pretty sure you can build a listing of all your tags into an S2 layout, and that would be nice to have all your tags dynamically generated as links in the "static" area of your page. (ie., not content), and I don't think you can do that with memories.

Tags will also use your current style when displaying entries - memories don't.

Ditto on the tag-as-you-go model. I've been able to quickly tag my older entries, more fluidly than the memories feature. I plan on linking my tags page (.../users/lexinatrix/tags/) on my static content portion of my journal, too.