May 15, 2003

Blog changes and other things

I have played and played with the categories, trying to decide how to do them. My initial plan was to categorize them by subject, but how was I to limit the subjects? Law, Crime, Justice and Other? Most of the posts would fit into more than one of those categories. I thought about more extensive categorization, identifying posts by what Constitutional Amendment, or whether it dealt with Health Issues, etc., and actually attempted to implement that system. I had categorized about 40 posts when I noticed I had 25 categories. Serious or Humorous? Only two categories? Why categorize? Anyway, I attempt to put a bit of humor even into my serious posts. Finally I looked back at the title to my blog: ***: Raggin' & Rantin' and came to the conclusion that there is a difference between Ragging and Ranting, and that not all of my posts qualified as either a Rag or a Rant. I analyzed my posts, and saw that along with Rags and Rants, I also have Raves, Remarks and Reports. So, I decided to categorize my posts by what type of a post it is:

  • RAG: this is a post where I am actually pointing out something that someone did that they should not be so proud of themselves for doing
  • RANT: this is a post where I have some strong ideas about the subject and freely shared my opinions about such in the post
  • RAVE: this is a post where I thought something said or done was impressive or praiseworthy
  • REMARK: this is a post where I reported on something primarily because I had a simple remark to make about the subject
  • REPORT: this is a post where I want solely to pass along some news I found or about myself or this blog

I have categorized about half the posts in the blog and am working on getting them all categorized. As such, that is one of the reasons there has not been all that much posting done here lately.

I thought about changing the name of the blog to ***: Raggin', Rantin', Ravin', Remarkin', & Reportin', and decided the name was fine the way it was. I do more Raggin' and Rantin' than most anything else anyway on this blog.

Now, the other things: I just wanted to share how I do a few things with regard to this blog and my blogging actions. First of all, I do read all of the blogs in my blogroll. How I choose which one to read and when depends primarily on one major factor. I try to connect to my blog when I have time: to check if there are comments to which to respond, something else that might need my attention, or because I use it as my homepage mostly because of the number of links to sites I visit regularly being found on the blog. If I have some free time to go blogging, I I usually click on whatever blogs show to have been recently updated on my blogroll.

How do I select sites for my blogroll? I check the site of any person who posts a comment on my site or trackbacks to one of my posts. If I like their content, and to tell you the truth, there are very few whose content I do not like, then I add them to the blogroll. I also find others because they were referred to in a post on a blog I was reading, or showed to be updated on someone else's blogroll. I also reciprocate links if I happen to find a blog that has put me on their blogroll, provided I like their content.

I am not sure how anyone else does it, but that is how I do it. I just thought I would share my methods of madness with you all.

Posted by Tiger at May 15, 2003 06:00 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Most of the things I come up with seem to fit into two or three categories at once, and while MT allows for such things, I opted to make my categories as vague and inchoate as possible.

Posted by: CGHill at May 17, 2003 01:11 PM