Over here at openSemro, we’ve really been trying to nail down the categorization of the news that we cover. We want to merge simplicity of navigation with ease of high level categories. It’s obvious: you have to make a sacrifice of one to increase the other. The key is to make our content easy to discover, while not creating a content maintenance nightmare on our end.

On the top level we saw that basically every story gets categorized as US News, World News or Business News (only a few posts don’t have either US News or World News attached and are usually Business News stories). We also have the Military and Politics categories. To open it up a little more we’ve decide to classify whether its US Politics or World Politics. We also just added four new categories: Crime, Science & Technology, Global Warming, and Election ‘08. And for now this is where will stop the breakdown.

We will continue to streamline the categories as time goes on, trying to find the right fit, which may just never happen

If you’ve got any suggestions or ideas, please post’em in the comments.

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