total.pardo

a further delineation of:

http://www.totalpardo.net/2008/01/30/convergence-unified-tagging-vs-categories/

i think there may be value in adding further categorization to posts under the cat/tag: writing.

i have evaluated the growth in volume of my blog and have noted that it passed the 300 post mark this year.  even if i back out the cat/tag “word.log” (which, if you haven’t noticed, i don’t publish the posts for that cat/tag on the front page - that would just show how much of a verbal neanderthal i truly am) there is still a great deal of writing (not necessarily that which is posted under the “writing” cat/tag) to be read, indexed, searched, etc.

and, as i move forward, there will be more.  hopefully, much.

take this very post:  its writing, but its not what i would categorize on this blog under the “writing” cat/tag. i would (will, actually) post this under “life.stream” (consider: aggregate) and “ideas.”  whilst i wrote this, i don’t consider it as “writing” for the purposes of convergence tagging.

now, generally, most of the crap on this site is just that - perhaps occasionally evocative, often wrong, always imitated (for examples of what NOT to write) but, that which i would write for writing’s sake (see below), needs further mapping out (at least, for me).

what prompted this review was the start of my archiving process.  while my writing will not win any prizes, keep you attention past the title (most times), or even pay me - it is important to me to see the volume and, perhaps, progress(ion) of the art skill talent attempts. if not for anything but to remind me when i’m 50 what i did late nights when i was 30.

i started to notice things that were tagged as writing were really not searchable as much as i would have liked - further segregation was (is) needed.

here is what i came up with in terms of sub categorization for writing:

poetry:  obvious.

short story:  also, obvious.

practice:  here, fragments - ferment fodder | germinate ideas

book:  items from chapters or sections of manuscript length works

altdis: alternate discourse, writing difference; to wit:

“…an opportunity to examine issues, studying about and experimenting with mixed discourse forms (of writing). Writing difference is a pun: when the writing is an adjective, the title indicates the study of divergent modes that writing can take, the difference in writing.  When writing is a verb, the title indicates the practice of creating divergent modes, writing those differences…examining perspectives on language from sociolinguistic, literacy, feminist and composition studies, and writing in hybrid, multigenre or mixed-genre discursive styles.”  (Maxson)

i think this will provide enough further classification to index the blog and make finding things easier.