November 15, 2003

Categories Redux

Liza Sabater

there's a really funny feature on the Onion about blogs. what would i put that under? blogosphere? miscellany?

Posted by liza at November 15, 2003 2:16 PM
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can we add something for humor ie: blogging funny

Posted by: liza at November 15, 2003 2:42 PM

Sure, we could have a Humor category. The test with categories is are you needlessly segregating the material if it could already be categorized in the existing set.

I'd probably put the onion link under "Weblog concepts" since "when mom finds out" (or something analogous) is one of the weblog concepts everyone stumbles upon eventually.

I use blogosphere more for the multiple-voice dialogues among bloggers and tools that look at blogs as a whole (like technorati), etc. These distinctions have gray areas, of course.

Posted by: xian at November 15, 2003 3:15 PM

I wouldn't use the "Required Reading" category for it, though. That's for longer essay-type entries or links to canonical weblog articles out there elsewhere. That category automatically gets listed in the Essential Entries listing in the sidebar too.

Posted by: xian at November 15, 2003 3:39 PM
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