I am really bad at categorization
For as long as I’ve been using the internet, I’ve struggled with tagging and categorization.
I remember installing Wordpress on my first Big Girl personal website at age 16 and feeling weird about permalinks. See, I was indecisive and permalinks exposed older versions of me through titles that were changed by the time a visitor read them. The average visitor probably wasn’t interested in comparing my URLs to my updated blog entry titles, but just knowing that they could was enough to make me self-conscious.
Having to then categorize these living, breathing blog entries (kept alive by my constant poking and prodding… erm “editorial decisions”) was an insurmountable problem. I’d oscillate between keeping everything uncategorized or creating too many oddly specific categories, the latter of which resulted in a deluge of information that defeated the purpose of making it indexable.
The benefit of unpublishing all of my entries on Bear Blog from March 2024 onwards is that I can be tidier about tagging my posts. But how do you categorize a post about categorization? I guess I’ll tag it “blogging about blogging,” which I imagine I’ll use too much until I unpublish stuff again.