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The uselessness of categories

After more than two years of hanging this thing for all to see, it is not a surprise to suddenly realize that this blog lacks both content and structure.
Content ought to be easy, since editorial comments is something we all have about no matter what.
However, that same content has been disorganizedly thrown here and there, not paying attention to any rule or method, and much less caring about the possible implications of having so much things lying on top of each other. There might be some value here, but it should be something obvious, not a gem that you had to dig through before making it real.
Step one is to start playing with the categories, since they have already failed me. What was once a decent conversation about politics or war is now moot point, now that we live in the Middle Ages. The category concerning Winston-Salem runs the risk of becoming a nostalgy fest, idealizing what that town is and offered. And a category devoteed to San Francisco is simply a bunch of stuff that happens to me here: since I am still experimenting everything, and all is new, well, the whole category becomes that, a portrait of the artist as a newcomer. Bad form.
Tags seem to be the current fad, and for the same reason they are not to be believed. I might do some private tagging, but for this to work I would need many more readers that the usual five Wake Forest profe and those other teachers (And they should comment).

For now, expect a change in posts and categories, and a new direction.

Final point is, where is thing called blogging going?

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