Giving Up Categories?

posted on 06/21/04 at 01:57:13 am by Joel Ross

I'm considering removing all categories (except the general one). Why? Well, for anyone who subscribes or reads this site, I'm testing my ability to blog directly from Outlook using IntraVnews 1.1 beta. Will I stay with it? I'm not sure. Why? Well, for one, my blogging system. It verifies that the HTML is XHTML compliant, so I have to post in plain text mode, meaning I can't link to anyone. Second, it doesn’t support setting the category (as far as I can tell), either.

I wonder how NewsGator does it. I use b2evolution, and right now, I’m not sure if it’s IntraVnews or b2evolution that is giving me the problems.

I try to keep categories so people can subscribe to a particular category, but I’m starting to rethink that. Do you subscribe to particular categories or to a whole blog? Personally, for me, it’s all or nothing. I’m also considering making multiple blogs, and having an aggregated one that sums them all up, so if you want just one piece, say technical, you get all technical content, and if you want everything, then you use the main feed. That won’t be for a while, but for now, posts from IntraVnews will only be in the general category, regardless of content.

Categories: General