On 4/29/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 4/29/07 10:38 AM, John Lee at johnleemk@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