Hi all,
before starting updating TWS' site a little more frequently, I'd like to reorganize the categories.
I'd like to have only 5 (+/- 2) main categories, plus a small bunch of secondary categories.
Main categories could be:
1. Squeak - for general Squeak news. 2. Squeak Community - for community and foundation news. 3. Announcements and releases 4. The Weekly Squeak - for blog-related news. 5. Smalltalk - for other Smalltalk news. 6. Seaside - for Seaside-related news.
Secondary categories could be added again in a second time.
Thoughts?
Giovanni
Hi Giovanni,
On 1/12/07, Giovanni Corriga giovanni@corriga.net wrote:
Main categories could be:
- Squeak - for general Squeak news.
- Squeak Community - for community and foundation news.
- Announcements and releases
- The Weekly Squeak - for blog-related news.
- Smalltalk - for other Smalltalk news.
- Seaside - for Seaside-related news.
these do make sense to me.
It looks as if you had decomposed along some kind of "projects" dimension. ;-)
For the secondary categories, I'd suggest a "user" or "target group" or "interest group" dimension, i.e., something along the lines of
(a) beginners (-> tutorials go here) (b) application developers (c) VM hackers (d) ...
That way, news could be organised along two mostly orthogonal dimensions and mapped to projects and target groups at the same time.
Best,
Michael
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?
Ron
-----Original Message----- From: news-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:news- bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni Corriga Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:01 AM To: news@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [News] Weekly Squeak's categories reorganization
Hi all,
before starting updating TWS' site a little more frequently, I'd like to reorganize the categories.
I'd like to have only 5 (+/- 2) main categories, plus a small bunch of secondary categories.
Main categories could be:
- Squeak - for general Squeak news.
- Squeak Community - for community and foundation news.
- Announcements and releases
- The Weekly Squeak - for blog-related news.
- Smalltalk - for other Smalltalk news.
- Seaside - for Seaside-related news.
Secondary categories could be added again in a second time.
Thoughts?
Giovanni
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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
Yes I think that works well.
I was just looking at the categories. It appears that you can group categories together by making them a child of another category. I like the idea of making your main categories and then adding each of the sub categories under the main ones when possible to bring more structure to the organization.
What do you think?
Ron
-----Original Message----- From: news-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:news- bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Giovanni Corriga Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 7:11 AM To: Ron@USMedRec.com; The mailing list for the Squeak News Team Subject: RE: [News] Weekly Squeak's categories reorganization
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
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