I believe that creative, unique, and numerous blog categories are an effective method for gaming the blogosphere. More is better.
I noticed a while ago that Wonkette has a category for me, /chris-abraham/.
Wonkette is gaming the blogosphere!
I wondered why until I watched Howard Mortman go nuts with the categories on Extreme Mortman. He is the most whimsical category-maker on the planet and I think this will benefit his blog immensely.
Howard Mortman is copying Wonkette!
Tecnorati, et al, uses blog categories as tags for insight into what you’re actually blogging about.
Here are all the categories just representing the main page of Extreme Mortman: Politics, White House, Elections, Candidates, Bush, President George Bush, Senator Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Presidential Election, Washington, DC, Inside the Beltway, Bush Administration, Senate, Liberal, conservative, mainstream media, terrorism, Abramoff, 2008 presidential campaign, taxes, Katrina, Conservatives, blogs, kids, Ritter, Kickapoo&Tyler too, Cut my syntaxes!, Hannah Storm, Tony Snow, Sec. John Snow, Sen. Olympia Snowe, How old is Willard?, McCain & McAble, Yasir That’s My Baby, Aaron Brrrrrrrrrrr, Brokeback Mortman, Cheney, Duck! Cheney!, Dick Cheney, Quail Not Quayle, Buckshot Stops Here, Nicholas Gauge, Finnish Line, Give Em Helsinki, Lloyd Grove fan club, Birch Branch, Birch Bayh, Bayh Bayh Birdie, Iowa, 2008 campaign, Here Plugs, All Things Rudin, All Things Dezenhall, All Things Kalb, All Things Shosteck, Juan Carlos Two Carlos, “liberal swine??? quote
