The taxonomy of openSermo

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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4 Responses to “The taxonomy of openSermo”

  1. I always read daily Busines News from across different online aggregators to keep myself up to date.”;:

  2. i always read newspapers about business news as they provide me info on how to manage my business -;:

  3. i always stay updated with regards to business news that is why i subscribe to online business communities`.:

  4. the business news these days are great, i guess we are already getting out from recession;;`

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