That is the question.
I have wondered, of late, if I should continue to bother. If I shouldn’t just stop categorizing, and kill all current categories. As a blogger, some times it is downright annoying trying to categorize a post. If a category doesn’t yet exist, you have to create one. If you create one, then you may go months without a post assigned to that category again.
I have found, as a blog reader, that I really don’t pay attention to categories on others’ sites. If I discover a new blog, and want to read more than just the post that brought me there, I usually go in reverse chronological order, rather than sorting through categories.
I know some of my fellow bloggers out there utilize categories, and some do not. I’m looking for both bloggers and blog readers to weigh in on this issue. Leave your thoughts, pro or con (or both), in the comments.
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Have you head the radio ad from Register.com with the two guys, “We lost the client because we didn’t have a web site”? What utter tripe. Apparently, Register.com doesn’t have a clue how an actual sales meeting would work.
If I am a sales person, already in a client’s office, meeting face to face, half the battle is already won. I am the face of my company, especially if the company is my own. I have full knowledge and pricing of my company’s products, and can show examples to the client in question. Presumably, on my business card will be an e-mail address of some kind, so the client can get in touch with me in some manner other than by phone. If said client–who has met me, seen my examples, been given a catalog, brochure, or other marketing materials, as well as my prices–then decides to not buy my products or services simply because I do not have a web site, then said client is insane.
If by not having a web site means one would not have an e-mail address, then Register.com should note that in their commercial. The whole thing is nonsense, and really annoys me each time I have to hear it. And for crying out loud, don’t pay Register.com twenty bucks when you can go to GoDaddy and register a domain name for nine dollars.
Top 10 search phrases for retrophisch.com for the first three days of September:
1. powerbook skin
2. definition of a liberal
3. sweet
4. conservative democrats
5. disassemble ipod
6. blaser r93 lrs2
7. barney cam
8. lsu tiger stadium
9. apple powerbook g4 12
10. powerbook benchmarks
The Web Standards Project has started a new campaign, called Browse Happy, as an attempt to get people to switch from the unsafe, non-pop-up ad blocking, inherently security unconscious, Internet Explorer.
I recently installed Firefox on to my wife’s PC, and showed her how it blocks the pop-up ads that annoy her with IE usage. It was a snap to install, and it brought over all of her bookmarks, preferences, etc. from IE. Not to mention that Safari, Camino, Firefox, and Mozilla all tend to be more standards-supporting than IE. Do yourself a favor and find an alternate browser. Do web developers everywhere a favor and find an alternate browser, so we don’t have to keep coding for more than one type. (I’m looking at you, Internet Explorer.)
Apple’s iTunes Music Store has broken the 100 million-song barrier.
Comments are back, so Chris P., you can now comment on my GarageBand-created track.
The solution? Turns out I had a blank line in my Movable Type banned IP list for retrophisch.com. This was blocking all IPs from posting. Deleted the blank, rebuilt the site just for good measure, and happy comment spamming days are here again.
Thanks to the many posters in the Movable Type Support Forums for commenting on their own comment problems. One of those forum members pointed me to the solution.
For some reason, no one is able to post comments at the moment. Not even myself. “You do not have permission…”
It is under investigation.
Why is it that Amazon.com’s recommendation system isn’t smart enough to figure out that it doesn’t need to recommend something to me that’s already in my wish list?
Declan McCullagh discusses his reservations about Google’s in-private-beta Gmail system. His privacy concerns are well-founded, but I’m sure a lot of people are willing to give up a bit of privacy for something that would have as much perceived value as a free gig of e-mail space.
Should Gmail open to the public as is, I can still see myself signing up for it, though my usage of it would be limited to a certain scope. In other words, I would be my own privacy protection, and that may be the best users can hope for.