Blogging and Controlled Vocabulary

So I am considering a blog redesign over on Comparative Geeks. I did a redesign on this blog, and changed the home page to be more like a website than a blog front-page. In the end, I think that makes this more like my portfolio or personal site than just a personal blog, or a re-purposed blog from school. Which to be fair, it was. So I went through each individual post, added the “more” function to most, moved my categories into tags, and added new categories.

Which was a lot of work, but it did what I wanted, which is changed the look and feel of this site. To be fair, I don’t think anyone actually uses it as I have it set up – I think mainly people read individual posts as shared from the WordPress reader or social media, but hey. Not like I’m putting up a ton of content here.

…Unlike Comparative Geeks. Where there are now over a year’s worth of 6-posts-a-week. And I’m thinking about similar sorts of changes, at least on the individual post levels: moving some categories to tags, and cleaning up the categories. We currently have 32 categories, and a number of them are things that more likely function as tags on other blogs – and that’s how people browsing through blogs might find us! What you define as these tags also carry over to other social media sites, especially, I have found, Tumblr.

So let me explore a few of the challenges I see in store for Comparative Geeks, dealing with the tags and categories in particular – more to come on some of my other plans for Comparative Geeks! Read on for some good blogging food for thought.

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