http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:19:26 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/04/29/174922.php#comment-8785 Hmm, wouldn't describe my reaction to the RIAA as "wounded". "Defiant" or perhaps "belligerant" might be better adjectives. :) 8785@blogcritics.org Tue, 29 Apr 2003 23:19:26 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/04/29/174922.php#comment-8773 Al, very nice, if deeply wounded post. Having analyzed it via this post I now see your category selection philosophy, which has found some people confused. It makes plenty of sense and is consistent, but it isn't the way anyone else I'm aware of is doing it. Rather than describing the Amazon products that you choose to include along with the post (which are very subjective and can be selected for any number of reasons), in this case the various books, the other, shall we say majority, method would be to simply use the categories to describe the subject of the post, ie where would you look if you were looking for a post on the threatening political actions of the RIAA re file sharing? I would look under Music: News, Et Cetera: Internet, Et Cetera: Politics, possibly Et Cetera: Electronics. There aren't any books involved in the post itself, so i wouldn't include those, though as I said, I understand why you did because you are describing the Amazon products you (quite correctly)included along with the posI am making this public because there has been A LOT of confusion about categories, especially with newer members, and I thought it would be helpful for everyone to see my thinking on this. Yours isn't "wrong," just different. The last, and in some ways, main question here is what is the Primary Category. Now it becomes pretty subjective: is the Primary Category Music because the story is about the actions of the RIAA? Or is it Et Cetera because it's really about the Internet. Either makes sense, but since the headline begins with "RIAA" I would probably pick Music, but it could go either way. Beyond that, great job lately, inspired. 8773@blogcritics.org Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:34:31 EDT