Enough blogs!
It seems that lately the solution to every problem is, “let’s set up a blog.” I’m trying to streamline to see if one blog can’t handle all my needs. After all, what are categories (or now, tags) for?
At one point I had four blogs of my own and participated in two or three group blogs. What I’d like to do is use only one blog for all the things I’m involved in. It would be nice if I could figure out how to use tags or categories to customize my blog based on the URL used to access it. For example, is it possible to have role1.domain.com point to something like domain.com/category/role1 and role2.domain.com point to domain.com/category/role2? This would allow me to manage just one blog and give my intended audience an easy-to-remember URL.
This goes back to some discussion Tony and I had. I was trying to explain that we can wear many different hats, which can translate into different online identities or profiles. For example, when using an online bookmarks manager, it would be nice to be able to define several profiles that could automatically tag sites with pre-defined tags. When I’m doing research for a class, I might want to automatically tag sites with the course number, instructor, topic etc. I’d like the same thing in blogs, preferably with variable themes based on category :D.
So, for one of the classes I’m taking this quarter I’m required to keep a reading journal. No, I’m not setting up a separate blog for it, I’ll be posting it right here.
October 14th, 2005 - 12:59 pm
“For example, is it possible to have role1.domain.com point to something like domain.com/category/role1 and role2.domain.com point to domain.com/category/role2?”
Yes - if you get on with your sysadmin.
An alternative on an Apache server, where you want to rewrite eg myblog.com/topic to myblog.com/long/category/path/to/a/particular/tag is to use a url rewrite: http://del.icio.us/psychemedia/urlrewrite
Again, you’ll have to be nice to your sysadmin…
October 14th, 2005 - 1:24 pm
Thanks, Tony. I’m my own sysadmin, so I’ll just have to learn how to do it. I’ve tried mod_rewrite before and always had a tough time with it. I’ll have a look at it after a bit.