Ruk is organizing his blog posts:
The danger, of course, is that my taxonomy will lose value once it becomes a tree with hundreds of branches. But, for the time being, I have a lot more granularity at my fingertips, which is, I think, a Good Thing.
I’m filing this under “Taxonomy,” a sub-category of “Weblogs.”
For me his blog post title sums it up: all taxonomies are private or personal. For example, he tags a post about David Letterman as “davidletterman” under the parent category of “television.” How does that benefit anyone else? For me, these schemes are only useful if people other than the person who devised them can use them. Do I look for stuff on my site by category, the closest thing I have to a taxonomy? No, I use Google.
My largest category contains more than 1000 posts, the smallest but 6: how useful is that? Could I have organized it better? Probably. But isn’t that like writing the index before you write the book?
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