Community Blogs should be categorized

I was thinking about blogging this morning and  how easy it is for me to find something which I've blog'ged about previously because I categorize all of my posts.  So, if I want to find that snippet which talks about nested matching then all I need to do is to click on my Regex category and scan the list.  Then I started thinking about how difficult it is to find content which other people have written and also how useful it might be if community blogs exposed content in higher level categories.  

For example... who are all of the ASP.NET Weblogs bloggers who blog about Exchange Server or Recruiting or whatever topic?

Perhaps community blogs could expose “Global” categories and bloggers could choose to optionally post entries to them.  This way I could subscribe to a community's feed for Exchange Server, Recruiting, Security or whatever, or I could subscribe to the sitewide feed or to individual bloggers feeds.

2 Comments

  • I think the problem is that with too many categories, and category specific feeds, you start to lose the personal aspect of it all. The main feed of weblogs.asp.net has the same problem, which is why I don't subscribe to it anymore. When I read a weblog I am usually interested in the person and what they have to say, whatever it happens to be about... for category specific stuff I usually just go hit up feedster or google.



  • As I have set a lot of categories in my blog and have just posted to only some of them, I wish .Text showed only the ones which have posts on them or show all, but show posts quantity each one has.

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