Category rundown

Christian Crumlish

Here's a list of the existing categories, with some explanation about their intended purposes or ultimate disposition:

Above the Fold

This is an obsolete category whose entries are destined to be exported from this blog and imported into my Above the Fold weblog, which is intended as a weekly column on web design and development to help promote my computer books.

Blogosphere

This category covers the blogosphere as a whole, debates ranging among various weblogs, and services - such as technorati - that analyze blogistan as an aggregrated information source.

Book News

This is another obsolete category that I plan to eliminate eventually, dating to when I was using RFB to promote by books.

Collaboration and Community

This is a category for discussing social software, k-logs, and other ways people use the Internet and weblogs to collaborate or form communities. It coulduse a pithier name.

Customizing

Tips on customizing your weblog using various tools - adding blogrolls, tweaking permalink formats, etc.

Dreamweaver

Another obsolete category to be removed.

Journalism

Coverage of the whole weblogs vs. trad journalism, weblogs-as-journalism, journalists as bloggers, etc. stuffs.

Memes

A place to note idea-viruses that occasionally take the blogopshere by storm.

Migration

Tips and techniques for migrating weblog entries from one product to another.

Miscellany

Like it sounds, a catch-all. Used sometimes for RFB administrivia too.

Nanopublishing

Coverage of weblogs as a publishing platform, as with Nick Denton's miniempire of Gawker, Gizmodo, Fleshbot, etc. Sometimes I discuss RFB stuff in this category too, when I consider RFB as an example of a nanopublishing experiment.

Politics

Warblogs and other political discussions carried out on blogs (commentary on John Edwards posting at Larry Lessig's blog would go here, for example).

Products

Product-specific tips and information: Blogger news, Radio complaints, MT and TypePad tips, etc.

Required Reading

This category needs cleaning but it's intended as a best-of and may eventually have its items listed in a sidebar. Both most popular entries and those we consider really crucial.

Salon Bloggers

Formerly Salonika, a place to discuss the Salong Blogs community and to put items linking to Salon bloggers, particularly when they don't get filed elsewhere.

Storytelling

Blogs used as a narrative medium, as with Plan B (the webnovel) or Gang Stories, etc.

Syndication

RSS and other syndicated formats, aggregators, and so on. Atom can be discussed here (but also in migration).

Weblog concepts

Here's where basic weblog ideas are presented and discussed. Something of a catch-all but not as generic as Miscellany - used to be called "metablog"

What else? Ideally, a post should be given just one category, or as few as possible when more than one is clearly called for.

Category to-do items:

1. Each category needs a written description
2. Each category should be pingable and we should promote that fact.
3. Templates for each category archive need to include the description, incoming pings, and information on how to ping.

Questions? Complaints? Suggestions?

Note: since it's just us here, I've turned off comments by default. Generally just follow up qwith a new entry of your own.