Categories
Posted by: metrocascade on: March 3, 2009
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We’re still working out “categories.” I originally conceived of the site as tri-partite below the (shorter) “cascade.” The three columns would have been modeled on three major silos in Victoria (Technology, Tourism, Arts – Government is another big silo, but also a whole planet unto itself that needs integration in a particular way).
For now, we’ve instead chosen to put all the news sources and items and blogs into the main cascade, and as we accrue more sources, we’ll have to revisit the category/ classification – and presentation – issue.
I’m not blogging as much as I should, partly because I’m buried in work right now and am behind deadline on one of my other gigs – writing a column for a local print publication.
We’re getting some nice feedback from local authors/ contributors, though, and thank everyone who is paying attention to this project.
2 Responses to "Categories"
March 3, 2009 at 9:11 pm
That’s a great question, Davin. If you have any suggestions, fire away – I still can’t figure out how/ why I have categories and tags on my personal wordpress blog (and on this one, for that matter), with categories being the “tagsonomy” and tags not really showing up. I mean, what’s up with that?
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That said, what the guys (Helmut & Werner) are trying to get a handle on is reading (in the RSS feed) the tags (or categories) that the bloggers give to their own posts (and that’s not a trivial thing to do, in fact seems to be not an option?), or else doing some magic thing to scan the post itself for keywords that will automatically generate categories.
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Right now, it’s a hand-coding issue – someone’s blog comes up, we try to give it a category. Obviously, that doesn’t scale, plus it’s too limiting.
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Outside.in recently posted an entry on their company blog asking people to set up their blogs so that the feeds show the entire posts (vs partial posts or extracts), because they have developed a way to read the posts and assign categories that way.
March 3, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Awesome. What rules are you using to differentiate between tags and categories?