Il giorno ven, 12/01/2007 alle 09.33 -0500, Ron Teitelbaum ha scritto:
Hi Giovanni,
Personally I like the categories the way they are. I'm not sure what benefit there is to fewer categories. From looking at the stats it's pretty clear that most people read just what shows up on the first page, or they come looking for a particular article. I have noticed that some categories get read fully. For those people looking for more information on a subject having more categories to find what they are looking for is very helpful. What are you trying to accomplish with fewer categories?
I've perused the referrers and clicks of the blog, and I've seen that many categories are indeed used. My point was that there are some feed consumers who would be interested in just a part of our posts. Smalltalk Central is one of those; Squeak.org could be another one. Since every post in the feed is tagged by its categories, those sites could filter the feed and publish only the post they're interested in.
So maybe we could proceed this way: consider the proposed "main categories" as "departments". Each post must belong at least to one of those departments, and may have as many other categories as it seems fit. The already-existing categories won't be touched.
Thoughts?
Giovanni