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When Ted Demopoulos asked, over at Blogging for Business, “I notice that Chris Abraham’s Marketing Conversation seems to have like a hundred [categories], and I like how it’s done, but is it an effective use of screen real estate? It obvious works for him, as do my 18 categories for me,” I responded, “I have to say that I don’t endorse my own strategy. I am a shameless SEO slut and so I have a tendency to focus more on using Categories and Tags as a tool for folksonomy as opposed to what Categories are supposed to be, which is user-navigation, UI, and Taxonomy.”

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2 Responses to “Blog Categories as Folksonomy”

  1. Blog Categories as Folksonomy

    “When Ted Demopoulos asked, over at Blogging for Business, ‘I notice that Chris Abraham’s Marketing Conversation seems to have like a hundred [categories], and I like how it’s done, but is it an effective use of screen real estate? It…

  2. If you create a tag cloud, it might prove problematic. But it would also weight the categories to make it more user-friendly as far as navigation.

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