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My Categories Suck

(Posted by adam)

The categories I've set for this blog are non-functional. I have 16 categories, of which maybe 4 are ever exclusive.

Do you look at my categorization of posts? Do you look at the category archives? Should I create a new set of categories? If so, what? (mmm, Choicepoint! Not.) Should I abandon categories and go to tagging? If so, what Movable Type/MarsEdit add-on should I use?

Posted by adam on March 15, 2005 at 10:15 PM in Taxonomies , Usability . You can: comment, view comments (5), see trackbacks (0) or search Technorati.

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I never pay attention to categories.

BTW, moxie.seisint.com is intriguing.

Posted by: Chris Walsh | March 15, 2005 10:26 PM

I'm experimenting with a hybrid approach.
You can do both with MovableType.

I started to post with tags while still filing to categories. However, I banished my categories to visibility only underneath my archives pages.

See www.securitytrustnews.com.

Also see a discussion on another site of this topic - http://dasme.org/archives/2005/02/11/no_longer_using_category_archives.php

Posted by: Tom Moore | March 16, 2005 12:37 AM

I never look at your categories either...

Posted by: MN | March 16, 2005 1:18 AM

Seems to be a recurring theme. Mine suck, too. And since they suck for the third blog in a row I seem to have a general problem. Oh well.

Posted by: Axel | March 16, 2005 5:29 AM

I try to keep my categories to a minimum, broad based categories like "News" or "technology". I never look at other bloggers categories.

Posted by: sama | March 16, 2005 12:13 PM