Off Topic?

Ok, I know this was hashed around a week or so ago in a different context, but maybe some people have some new or interesting ideas they could share.

I really love the .net weblogs archive. I use it a ton now. I used to use the dotnetweblogs.com page, but the problem was that there are a lot of dot net weblogs outside of dotnetweblogs.com (mostly radio blogs) that I couldn't view from there. Additionally, the main page wasn't archived, so you could easily miss a lot of posts if you didn't check back really often. So, I created the archives and things are working out really nice.

Still, there are a lot of really good software blogs out there, like Joel on Software. Not a dot net blog, but 90% of the people subscribing to the feeds here are probably also subscribed to that feed. Or what about Scoble's blog. Not a ton of .NET info, but still a lot of interesting Microsoft related stuff, and so it is often times is of interest even though it isn't .NET specific.

In my mind, a good community has many facets. .NET is a very good topic, but if all we had were .NET  code snippets from everyone, it would be a pretty dull community (see "newsgroups"). Let us say, for instance, that Martin Fowler starts a blog talking about design patterns and application architecture. Being an abstract concept, there may not be a single .net specific post, but the information contained is still very relevant and applies to all developers, .NET or not.

I suppose I could categorize the blogs with something like ENT (.NET specific, General Application Architecture, Microsoft Related, Gurus, etc.) and let everyone filter as they see fit?

Still, you have the issue of individual blog postings that some people might want to be filtered out (for example, personal postings are good if you really are interested in a specific person, but when you have a ton of aggregated feeds from people who you know nothing about, the personal details could quickly become irrelevant). It would be really nice if we could get some standardized categorization going on in the community, using something like ENT clouds, so that people can customize as they see fit. Seems like a doable thing for the .NET community... I mean, we are the guys that make the software world go round. If we can't do it, who can?

Thoughts, comments, suggestions?