I’ve been mulling a re-design of this site, for oooh, about a year. One of the things I like about the current site is the categories. They’re supposed to reflect the taxonomy that makes up the world of e-learning. I suppose they meant sense to me 18 months ago, but now they feel amateurish. At best, they don’t fit with the areas of interest that Evan and I post to.
I think this reflects the development in my understanding of the area in which I work, but also my focus has changed as well. Maybe a ‘on this day from 18 mths ago’ might be an interesting feature?
Anyway, I’ve subsumed the re-design to the depths of my mind (the area that prioritises activities such as paying bills and sorting my study out), but I just saw e-learning post’s category archive. I like these. You can go one of two ways with categories – either really granular, or more generic. I like generic, it allows for serendipity – sometimes i want to discover stuff, not drill in a really focused way.
K-collector is extraordinarily cool btw, as it aggregates blogs into categories. Which, if you’re not feeling random, is an excellent way to think.
By the way, the ‘related posts’ feature is supposed to create links in otherwise seemingly unrelated posts – and it’s live, so newer posts can be linked from old posts automagically. It sort of works, but is based on keywords. Another feature that needs a lot of tweaking.