In theory, taxonomies beat categories hands down for organizing content. The main advantages are flexibility and precision. With taxonomic tagging, you describe content on an atomic level, very precisely, and then you build queries get lists of the stories (or photos or whatever) that you want. And because a true taxonomy maintains a parent-child relationship [...]
I’ve started a page of useful tools & sites for online journalists. It’s a work in progress, and still a bit of a grab-bag list, but you’re sure to find something interesting there. Over the next few days & weeks I’ll dig deeper into my bookmarks and try to annotate, illustrate and organize it. Suggestions [...]
Some people aspire to immortality through art or politics, or by building a business empire. I’d love to have my name attached to a law. Not a criminal law, mind you, but something like Moore’s Law — something that captures some fundamental insight clearly and simply. Here’s my current top candidate: Wilson’s Power Law of [...]
Met today with Richard Anderson of Village Soup, who gave us an overview of the integrated print/online content management system they’ve developed to run their own sites and are now trying to spread to other news organizations. The CMS is interesting (there’s an open-source version and an enterprise version they’re selling), but what really impresses [...]