On 4/29/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 4/29/07 10:38 AM, John Lee at johnleemk(a)gmail.com wrote:
I still maintain that categories are the best way
to organise our
content,
provided that we have unions and intersections.
Tags simply don't
provide
the necessary hierarchy and structure to make
organising content simple
and
easy; they're excellent for random browsing,
but not so much for hunting
down specific articles.
I agree with you completely, John. It's just that the present state of the
Category system is completely out of control. The existing Policies on
Categorization have become more complicated than the U.S. Tax Code; and,
those that can be deciphered are being completely ignored. I, for one, am
not sure how much more cerebral RAM and emotional energy I want to spend
on
this.
The status quo is patently unacceptable. The question now is, where can we
get the expertise necessary to write the requisite code for intersections
and unions, and further, how can we stem these increasingly complex and
arcane policies? The latter is simple; as policy is descriptive, not
prescriptive, use common sense when categorising, unless you feel the
situation is too complex for your common sense to be right. The former is a
more difficult problem to solve.
Johnleemk