Whole Lotta Shaking Going On »
As I mentioned earlier in the week, categorizing information is difficult. It's not getting any easier. Of course that doesn't stop me from trying. Yesterday I went through and updated a bunch of entries to try and better categorize them (yes, again).
The Sites & Sounds category, as it was, no longer exists. It has been renamed to Diversions, and will handle anything that you might be interested in for passing the time - notably things like shows, movies or music, but there may be other events or entertaining links thrown in there from time to time.
This category, as a general rule, will not contain any television-specific time-wasting activities (those may be found filed under Televizzle), nor will it include any gadget-related information, since I know that generally only geek-types such as myself will be interested in those as diversions (look in Gadgeteria if they are what you are after).
I also created a Travelogue category for travel-related diversions, and it will contain entries related solely to, you guessed it, travel. This will be mostly reports on our travel, but from time to time announcements of upcoming travel, potential travel that sounds interesting, web sites dealing with travel, tips on travel or even goofy stories about travel will be included.
Of course, if you simply read chronologically, or use the search function to find interesting things to read, then none of this really matters and you can safely ignore it. Have a nice day.
Comments (2)
The problem with categories is, you and I are unlikely to every agree to catagory classifications. That's why I don't even try on my blog. I figure I'll just let the search engine do my work for me.
That said, I DO have specific folders in my Outlook into which I route emails based on who they come from. I use Copernic to search my emails.
Also on my company blog, I have put categories, but I display them on the home page for the convenience of visitors.
Posted by Ted | May 23, 2005 2:57 PM
Ted, I could not agree more. But over time, my own categorization techniques change. This may be because a particular category doesn't really take off like I suspected it would (Take This Job is an example of this).
It may also be a technical glitch. In this case, the dynamic vs. static routines in Movable Type vary enough that a particular category name - specifically one with an ampersand (&) in it - would be rendered as two completely different URLs!
In the end, I suspect that the searching and tagging of the items will make categorization nearly useless. But I do believe that there is some value - even if we never see eye-to-eye. By representing things in somewhat reasonable groups, you could subscribe to the feeds of various categories, instead of reading the whole blog. That's more what I'm after here.
Posted by Chad Everett | May 25, 2005 6:11 AM