2008/9/24 Philip Sandifer <snowspinner(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Sep 24, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
There are plenty of other ways to split the site
in
two, but I think this is the best.
Surely the best is "don't split the site in two."
Unless we're seriously considering an internal fork between popular
culture and academia. Which, as a popular culture academic, I would
find horribly dismaying.
Come on, am I really that difficult to understand? I thought it was
pretty obvious what I meant...
If we're going to have two featured articles a day (which is the only
way to catch up - other than promoting fewer articles, which I doubt
anyone would support) it makes sense to have two very different
articles. An easy way to do that is to separate all the articles into
two categories (just in an abstract sense, I'm not talking about any
kind of fork, just listing some articles in one column in Raul's
notebook and some articles in the other) and pick one from each
category each day. There are various pairs of categories that would
work, I think "traditional" and "pop-culture" (fairly loosely defined
to make sure every article fits into at least one of them, if it fits
into both, no harm done) would be best.