[uf-discuss] hCa* CATEGORIES as TAGS

Benjamin Carlyle benjamincarlyle at optusnet.com.au
Fri Dec 2 21:42:26 PST 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:39 -0500, Chris Messina wrote:
> My example really wasn't meant to illustrate anything about that one
> particular type of phrase... instead it was a weak attempt to show
> that categories are not consistently semantically useful equivalents
> of tags. For perhaps a better real-world example, I have a category on
> my site called "Asides". Now if my posts to that category were only
> tagged with "Asides" (as they actually currently are), how on earth
> would anyone find that content? And because they're short, concise
> little posts, I don't really want them littering my other category
> listings (ignoring the obvious hack to exclude that category from
> other listings).

Perhaps this is indicating that "Asides" is a separate feed (ala hAtom)
with its own categorisation requirements?

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Benjamin Carlyle <benjamincarlyle at optusnet.com.au>



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