2008/9/24 Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
There are plenty of other ways to split the site in two, but I think this is the best.
Surely the best is "don't split the site in two."
Unless we're seriously considering an internal fork between popular culture and academia. Which, as a popular culture academic, I would find horribly dismaying.
Come on, am I really that difficult to understand? I thought it was pretty obvious what I meant...
If we're going to have two featured articles a day (which is the only way to catch up - other than promoting fewer articles, which I doubt anyone would support) it makes sense to have two very different articles. An easy way to do that is to separate all the articles into two categories (just in an abstract sense, I'm not talking about any kind of fork, just listing some articles in one column in Raul's notebook and some articles in the other) and pick one from each category each day. There are various pairs of categories that would work, I think "traditional" and "pop-culture" (fairly loosely defined to make sure every article fits into at least one of them, if it fits into both, no harm done) would be best.