Everyone once in a while I come up with a new categorization tree for this place, on the theory that it makes sense to give my readers a chance to filter out some of my posts and focus on what interests them. In the twelve years since I started this blog, I haven’t met anyone who actually uses these categories, but it pleases me anyway.

I just made some minor changes to the catalog tree here, which you can ignore if you’re happy skimming the sum total of my output. Unfortunately, I haven’t yet figured out how to turn these categories into separate RSS feeds, which I assume is a WordPress feature; if anyone wants it and knows what plugin turns that on, say so. Here’s my current taxonomy:

Conspiracy Theories: essay length and/or reasonably thought-out posts. I’m naming this after the overall title of the blog, but it could just as easily be called, “Jeff’s Self-Diagnosed Important Thinking.” Your mileage may vary.

Illuminatus: short blurbs and links to other web and mass media. Several incarnations of jeffporten.com ago, I had these broken out as a separate blog, but it still seems like that’s too much navel-gazing.

Mac Guru: technical diatribes about various Mac issues. I might add an Internet Guru category in the future, or I might rename this as a general catch-all for when I geek out about gadgets or the Internet.

Publications and Software: it’s rare, but when I publish words or bits, I generally want to highlight them here, and I’ll continue doing so.

I have a half-dozen other, older categories which I don’t use any more; those are now grouped under “Arcanum” in the right sidebar for anyone who’s interested. Chances are that if I revive an old category, I’ll promote it back out of this historical dustbin.

As I said, I strongly suspect that maybe two people on the planet other than me might care about this; if you do, and you have any input on making my site a more interesting way to procrastinate, feel free to let me know.