We’ve done a little much-needed upgrading, to the way the site works and the way it looks. A crack team of test elves swarmed all over the site, and didn’t report anything broken, but some of them are pretty slack. So if you find something that isn’t quite right, let us know.
Also, in response to a demand, we’ve put in a Category Cloud, which indicates what we write about. Personally, I find it a trifle misleading, but that’s a discussion we need to have among ourselves. Your thoughts, however, are most welcome. Thanks.
I couldn’t agree more that category clouds are misleading for many reasons, principally because it might be seen as an indication of your editorial policy (viz. what is important rather than what happens to be the issues of the day). “What we write about” is therefore a tad misleading, so how about another label? “What’s hot”, “Zeitgeist” are rather passé. Perhaps “category cloud” is best, Joe Public doesn’t quite know what it means so it is, ipso facto, rather alluring.
I like the idea to do more with the category tags. Also nice that comments are tagged now.
“Information” and “Mainstream” are the most important categories, which isn’t very informative. Perhaps excluding these two categories would improve the cloud (is that possible?).
I guess the importance is the frequency of the tags. If importance would be measure as the length of posts dedicated to each category the cloud would change, I think.
So, now I have to think about the tag of this comment…