Thinking, again, about implementing categories. This way you could assign posts to specific categories, and readers could select views of the page containing only content in specific categories.
But every time I start to think about this the idea grows into some general purpose meta data scheme, and eventually ends up competing with the idea of web pages. In other words, if you make a really complete category system for a weblog, aren't you just duplicating the idea of having multiple web pages?
That's not very clear. I'll try to explain this again soon.
Sounds like Whitehead's Theory of Logical types with a little Incommensurability thrown in or as Hopkin's said it : what I do is me. Are there more categories than there are things? Anyone out there know how to cure my Fear of Flying?
My two cents: It's more trouble than it's worth. Weblogs are mostly about the present. Part of the charm is that they're undigested masses of information. You've made it pretty easy for people to create pages to categorize weblog content. That's basically what i did with /technodiary/. I haven't been good about keeping up that page, but I if I write about music on /tommoody/, I always make a copy and post it on that page as well.
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But every time I start to think about this the idea grows into some general purpose meta data scheme, and eventually ends up competing with the idea of web pages. In other words, if you make a really complete category system for a weblog, aren't you just duplicating the idea of having multiple web pages?
That's not very clear. I'll try to explain this again soon.
- jim 12-18-2002 8:03 pm
Sounds like Whitehead's Theory of Logical types with a little Incommensurability thrown in or as Hopkin's said it : what I do is me. Are there more categories than there are things? Anyone out there know how to cure my Fear of Flying?
- frank 12-18-2002 8:23 pm
My two cents: It's more trouble than it's worth. Weblogs are mostly about the present. Part of the charm is that they're undigested masses of information. You've made it pretty easy for people to create pages to categorize weblog content. That's basically what i did with /technodiary/. I haven't been good about keeping up that page, but I if I write about music on /tommoody/, I always make a copy and post it on that page as well.
- tom moody 12-18-2002 9:23 pm