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Should Analog be added to the Technologies

dang74

I am in the process of writing a blog on a vacuum tube project.  I noticed that it doesn't fit into any of the existing Technologies groups.  I originally brought this up in the feed-back forum.  Doug replied by suggesting that Analog should be added to the technology groups.  This could cover designs and blogs that take a more traditional approach... and don't otherwise fit into the other existing groups. 

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  • After reading through the many comments here the general consensus seems to be having a more general category for things that don't otherwise fit into the existing categories.  Possible names could be: Electronics, Electronics - Other, Everything Else, Other, Outside the Box, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized...

  • in reply to dang74

    I inherited managing a work website once, and misc was a mess, people could have found better categories but they didn't use them : ( And other teams were forever complaining they couldn't find what they wanted on our site, or unearthed ancient content that was wrong. I took the nuclear approach in the end, and wiped out everything that had not been accessed in ages, if it were in Misc, and then managed the movement of the remainder Misc content into better categories.

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  • in reply to dang74

    I inherited managing a work website once, and misc was a mess, people could have found better categories but they didn't use them : ( And other teams were forever complaining they couldn't find what they wanted on our site, or unearthed ancient content that was wrong. I took the nuclear approach in the end, and wiped out everything that had not been accessed in ages, if it were in Misc, and then managed the movement of the remainder Misc content into better categories.

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  • in reply to shabaz

      I agree that "Miscellaneous" is Pandora's Box.  Some folks see their "baby" (project/idea) as too special to fit in normal categories and want it to have a "special' place to put them.  Unfortunately, they fail to see that many see "Miscellaneous" as "Other - not applicable".  Unless an outsider can look at your project/idea and say "Yup.  That's weird.", it shouldn't be in "Miscellaneous".  Figure out the correct category.

    What's the correct category?  How did we learn electronics?  Basic - reference this back to The Learning Center.  Digital - yes/no, high/low, on/off, square waves.  Analog - not basic and not digital, anything with a "not square wave" waveform.

    Other categories would be "microprocessors" - already covered by the current menu system.  "Specialty IC's" might be a contender - maybe.  I don't think "Passives" warrants their own category - but I could be wrong.  What other major categories are there?  AGAIN, "MAJOR categories"?
    Engineers should surely be able to differentiate between an active or passive device, analog or digital.  Linear thinking is part of their super powers.

  • in reply to kmikemoo

    Another approach might to be to lose the hard-wired major categories and then rely more on tags. You then use the tags to filter and group the information. A blog can have more than one tag so it can be found through multiple categories.

    You however then need to do a bit of housekeeping on the tags.

  • in reply to beacon_dave

    Interesting idea.  It accommodates both Jan's idea of no categories while still satisfying the need to organize and filter.