Pem’s Tech Blog

Here was my initial basic list of ideas for category names:
Blogging: Blog Admin, other blogs
Hardware: computer hardware, hardware devices, cell phones, media players, gadgets, hardware accessories, physical products
Software and Services: software programs, tech-related services, online services, etc
Broad Tech: tech-related thoughts, broad tech issues that don’t fall into the other categories

My initial idea was for every post to only be in 1 category, but I think that makes naming the categories more difficult. Maybe “Software” and “Services” should be seprate categories. Microsoft Outlook is “software”. But is gmail and yahoo email “Software” or “Services” or “Web”? An area of the topics I may post about are “Software / Services / Web”. I don’t think whether (you install an application and run it on your local machine) vs. (you run the application through a web browser) should make it go in a separate posting category. There is plenty of software that has both versions (such as instant message).

So I’ll have to think more about the categories. I think they could be a really useful way to organize my posts in the archives.

Here’s another brian storming attempt at categories:
Hardware -> Computers: computer laptop, desktop, workstation/server hardware
Hardware -> Devices: gadgets, cell phones, media players, hardware accessories
Hardware -> Accessories: peripherals, audio, other
Software / Services / Web: software programs, tech-related services, online services, etc
Software / Services / Web -> Communication: email, instant message, social networking
Blogging: Blog Admin, other blogs
Broad Tech: tech-related thoughts, broad tech issues that don’t fall into the other categories

Again, this is just brain-storming. I thought about “Hardware -> Devices” being “Hardware -> Gadgets”, but I’m not sure what “gadgets” exactly means. By “Devices”, I really mean anything smaller than a laptop (making the Asus Eee PC a laptop, and the iPhone a device).

This should also give some idea about what I plan to write about. But feel free to comment to suggest a topic, or ideas about how to organize the posts better (and thanks if you do).

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