Moshe suggested using taxonomy to tag nodes that admins have decided to make into blocks. However, I am running into problems with implementing this. Taxonomy forms are not designed to be used only some of the time (for block admins only). There is no way to guarantee the required vocabulary even exists.
The advantage of using taxonomy is that it will automatically make a feed and easily allow admins to tag incoming feeds. If I do not use taxonomy make_block will keep its own SQL table and provide its own feed, which we may or may not expose through syndication.module. Coding this without taxonomy will be quicker, but less integrated with Drupal. I would like to go ahead and do it with out taxonomy, but am checking if anyone is really encouraging its use first. -Neil
