I’ve been “reading” lots of Reddit lately. (Scanning headlines and clicking on a handful of links, mostly pointless stuff). Some big news about Glenn Beck lately having raped some poor girl in 1990. Being a big Reddit target, tons of links/stories were supplied, all about the same topic. Trouble is, most of them were submitted to categories that had nothing to do with Glenn Beck or whatever it is he does. On the front page today, I counted 5 different categories for Glenn Beck articles; pics, reddit.com, politics, economics, WTF…

This is the problem with the standard method of categorizing things. Often, we end up shoe-horning topics in places they don’t really belong. I suppose tagging has sort of fixed this problem, but tags have their own problems. Just another thing that has outlived it’s usefulness I guess.