Blog Categorisation

No, not in the blogosphere sense, but in the making groups in NetNewsWire sense. I'm finally getting round to re-sorting everything. Here's how I'm going about it:

• Lots of feeds for what could class as blogs, so that's a top-level. In this is:
  
  • a CS folder, currently only inhabited by this computational complexity weblog
  • a Tech folder for people who write mostly about tech (e.g. Russell
  • and a People folder for people who write mostly about the world (e.g. RIR).
• A semantics toplevel, for all the Semantic Web stuff I watch. Here also lives the linguistics stuff I enjoy reading (e.g. the incomparable languagehat).
• A news group, for feeds that aren't really blogs (from CleverCS to Boing Boing).
• I've then got an aggregated folder. I don't really like this one: here live my PubSub subscriptions, and they're all useless duplicates (given the number of feeds I have) — for example, when RDF and OWL changed status, I got 100 new items from people just saying that, with no useful contribution at all. Waste of time.
  Planet Lisp is quite handy, though.
• In the root of NNW's pane, then, are two feeds: my own (vital for checking my own output), and a PubSub feed for people referring to me. It's interesting to see all the localfeeds subs picking up my posts!

It's a chore, but I'm an organisation maniac when it comes to computers (oddly enough, not true in the real world!) — I could never live like my brother, with thousands of MP3s with no ID3 tags. I even bother to get the category, date, and composer right if I can!

The nice thing about being a bit out of the gaming scene is that I can now look forward to getting round to playing a bit of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance this afternoon, and not worry about the fact that it's 9+ months old.

Posted at 2004-02-21 06:33:40 by Richard • Link to Blog Categorisatio…
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