hey y’all (both of y’all), can I pick your brains a minute? I’ve been meaning to categorize my blog posts for ages now. I started off with categories actually (I started this blog with a pretty defined set of questions and reading list) and was pretty good at keeping my posts categorized but then my interests started to shift and didn’t fit the old categories. A while back I started again re-categorizing but then things shifted further and again the categories didn’t fit (they still fit better than the first set but not fully). Anyhow, question - got any suggestions on the sort of general types of posts that tend to appear on this blog? There’s posts about me (mostly music, exercise, food, and feelings, and maybe books/reading and people I like), there’s politics in the sense of actual work I do other than theoretical work, there’s theoretical stuff tied to politics, there’s stuff on Marx, stuff on philosophy, … uh… what else? Any suggestions? Anyone done much blog post categorizing got tips to follow or mistakes to avoid?
June 30, 2009
Hey - that handful of people who read my blog sometimes, can you give me a little advice please?
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I guess I have never tried to sort your stuff by categories so I didn’t even notice them. I like the idea of tag clouds and then the tags that are most frequent becoming your subjects. Or just doing the tag things instead of shuffling posts into categories. In the end I don’t have a good answer for you but instead a snarky way of avoiding the issue altogether.
Comment by travis — June 30, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
You could always let decide…
Comment by N. Pepperell — June 30, 2009 @ 10:52 pm
hmm… should have been “let wordle decide”… (sorry - sick at the moment - between brain and fingers is a cloud of fog… that’s in addition to the fog actually in the brain…)
Comment by N. Pepperell — June 30, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
haven’t you heard, catergories are sexist, hierarchical… in short, reactionary. heehe (sorry, not much help)
Comment by tzuchien — June 30, 2009 @ 11:19 pm
never worried about catetories, raed you on a feedreader anyway.
think you should consider categories as a technique for archive, and then as a supplement/alternative to search, which would probably be the most common way someone would navigate your archive
Comment by c25 — July 1, 2009 @ 1:19 pm
I recommend a tag cloud. You won’t be forced to fit things into neat boxes, just type away all associated terms and word for each post and it does the work for you.
Comment by Adam W. — July 6, 2009 @ 11:49 pm