Ryan Morrison has some thoughts about the idea that the best blogs are ones that concentrate on one topic and are easily categorisable. I posted some thoughts in a comment there, so go and take a look if you’re interested.
I’ve thought about making some changes to the categories so that there are fewer (more broadly-defined) categories, so that people who were only interested in, say, the music posts could just bookmark the music category page (or subscribe to the music RSS feed). You can do that anyway, but I thought my plan might encourage people to do that if they wanted to.
I doubt there would be many takers though. I like the variety of blogs, and I never read any blog religiously, post-by-post. I always skip posts, even on blogs that focus narrowly on a specific topic. And I’m sure everybody does. So I don’t see how it matters much.
Anyway, what I have in mind would result in yet another redesign. I was sorely tempted to redesign last week for about three minutes. And then I thought, everything is fine as it is at the moment (well, apart from maybe the sidebar menus still, but I simply can’t be bothered with that any more)!
I’ve also pondered switching back to del.icio.us for asides / linklog style entries. But then I remembered why I switched away from it in the first place — the lack of comments. Del.icio.us still doesn’t have comments, so I’m going to stick with the current asides idea, which is actually very flexible.
Phew. I’m becoming an expert at holding in the urge to tinker — I should draw up a seven-point plan or something.