Classify this
As someone with an masters degree in library science, I’d expect myself to be better at classifying things. And as the internet first started becoming a big thing, I was very annoyed at the lack of standardization and classification for websites and other content. Intellectually, I understood the challenges, but not in practice.
I still wish that it could be different. For example, every time I see a movie preview, when the movie has a website and they go through all sorts of URL contortions to make the name memorable and meaningful, I think all movies sites should just be name-of-the-movie.mov. Same for tv shows, although I do applaud Tuvalu’s creativity in creating a market for its top-level domain.
Then we come to blogging. Once I started this blog, the whole idea of classifying the content boggled my mind. Now, were there an existing classification system I could employ, I’d've been all over that. Instead, I had to decide the categories and how to allocate them. Suddenly, that intellectual understanding of the challenges of classifying web content became visceral.
I still wish it were different. But since I can’t even figure out the best way for this little blog, I can’t complain too loudly about everyone else.