Click change: Goodbye tag cloud and categories list

Per my recent post, "Tags and categories — who needs 'em?," I've removed those two elements — the tag cloud and categories listing — from the home page of this blog.

I also took to opportunity to clean up the rickety code upon which this Movable Type blog is built and "modularize" it a bit more — meaning taking discrete bits of code out of the main blog template, recasting them as distinct modules and then calling those modules into the main template as needed.

It's cleaner, easier to modify, and did I mention cleaner? I did, didn't I?

Anyway, as I said in the previous post on this topic, all the microblogging I've been doing on Twitter and Identi.ca has led me to think that the time spent adding tags and categories to "full-sized" blog posts is an impediment to doing more, quicker blog posts.

And if I'm not using the tag and category features of the blog CMS (in this case Movable Type), why have them display with old data?

For now they're not displaying in the home page. I'll check the new entries to see what's happening there and adjust the code accordingly.

I probably won't rebuild the previous 1,000+ entries in this blog because such extensive rebuilds clog up the server like crazy — so I avoid unnecessary rebuilds whenever possible.

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