{"id":318,"date":"2003-04-21T21:35:04","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T02:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2003-04-21T21:35:04","modified_gmt":"2003-04-22T02:35:04","slug":"all-categories-are-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"All Categories are Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sifry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sifry.com\/alerts\/archives\/000282.html\">comments<\/a> about the  draft specification of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.purl.org\/NET\/ENT\/1.0\/\">Easy News Topics 1.0<\/a> (ENT), proposed by <a HREF=\"http:\/\/paolo.evectors.it\/\">Paolo Valdermarin<\/a> and <a HREF=\"http:\/\/matt.blogs.it\/\">Matt Mower<\/a>.<br \/>\nDave is concerned that a category standard would fall prey to the problems of ambiguity and scamming that killed HTML META tags.<br \/>\nAs I noted in comments on his post, Dave is absolutely right at the scale of the web or the blogosphere.<br \/>\nHowever, I think that categories will be much more valuable at the community level. For example, Austin has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinbloggers.org\">meta-blog<\/a>, aggregating posts related to Austin. People in other cities are starting to do the same. If we could map sub-categories, we would be able to create a cross-regional directory. There are local editors who keep the system from being spammed, and make decisions about how to map categories.<br \/>\nSo, I think that the system can work in the context of defined groups and defined applications.<br \/>\nThe only thing that ENT is missing is a way to alias categories &#8212; Austin&#8217;s &#8220;music events&#8221; maps to Ann Arbor&#8217;s &#8220;concerts.&#8221; Presumably this could be implemented at the application level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Sifry comments about the draft specification of Easy News Topics 1.0 (ENT), proposed by Paolo Valdermarin and Matt Mower. Dave is concerned that a category standard would fall prey to the problems of ambiguity and scamming that killed HTML META tags. As I noted in comments on his post, Dave is absolutely right at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All Categories are Local&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-58","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}