On 5/11/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Sometimes I wonder whether categories were ever a good idea to begin with. They were certainly implemented horribly.
I have my own reservations, but mostly because they are used to both categorise and tag. "Countries in Europe" is a category, in everyday parlance. "Living person" or "Scientology" are not - they're tags, or descriptors, or classification codes but you would never browse "living persons", and you would be hard pressed to define the edges of what should or shouldn't go into "Scientology".
OTOH, what would be great about categories would be being notified when new items were added to them - but that doesn't seem to be possible.
Steve