Comments on: Anniversary

By: Michael Giudici

Michael Giudici — Sat, 15 May 2010 10:37:36 +0000

Hi Peter,

I vote for you continue. Your blog provides a great mix of maths and things of concern to mathematicians. I have enjoyed many of your posts.

Instead of tags, perhaps you could use categories to index things.

By: Dima

Dima — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:14:17 +0000

one can create “pages” (as opposed to “posts”); these are sort of static and can be used for creating summaries with links…

By: Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:00:59 +0000

What troubles me is: what if someone who would really like to know about the symmetric group stumbles on this website. How do they discover that there is some information for them here? Tags are part of the answer, but I think some kind of summary or index page might be helpful too.

In any case, that is not going to get done now for a little while: my exam is tomorrow and my head will be down for a week!

By: Dima

Dima — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:34:11 +0000

adding tags to posts would help people to locate and filter contents.
Say, if you add the tag Sn to all posts on the symmetric group, then
an url like cameroncounts.wordpress.com/tag/Sn
would display all the posts with this tag…

By: Jonathan Vos Post

Jonathan Vos Post — Wed, 12 May 2010 15:32:32 +0000

Keep it up! I posted a link to this on my Facebook page. Among my 860 friends there, many are in Mathematics or Science.

By: Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:18:35 +0000

Thanks everyone – that is enough of a vote of confidence for me.

As to tags, keywords, etc., I agree that Google will find what you want very efficiently, if you know it is there. I am a bit old-fashioned, and I think that what I will probably do (when time permits) is to produce an index page, which may be organised by categories.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:56:33 +0000

Hi Peter,

I only discovered your blog a couple of months ago, but since then it has quickly become one of my favourites. A good mix of mathematics (but not too much mathematics! Many blogs I subscribe to are more like work than fun, and I have a whole pile of papers I’ve been meaning to read if I feel like working), discourse on issues around mathematics, and “other”.

50-200 people a day is a lot of unhappy people if you stop! And unlike with Take That, we will not even have any solo careers to look forward to.

I say keep up the good work!

By: Ted Jones

Ted Jones — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:23:38 +0000

Awesome post!

Also, happy anniversary. I just ran across your blog a few days ago. I can’t offer any suggestions, but I thought I’d take the opportunity to say hello and let you know after my heavy commenting on one of your recent posts that I’m not a long time reader.

Thoughts of having my own blog have crossed my mind from time to time, but when they do, I always doubt that I’d stick it out for the long term. A year sounds like a long time to me! Good luck to you whatever you decide.

By: ahwingsecretagent

ahwingsecretagent — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:00:15 +0000

I personally think that it would be a great shame if this blog were stopped and that from the few maths blogs that I regularly visit, this one seems to be updated most often and it has plenty of interesting material. On the other hand, it would probably be a good idea to have the posts categorised, so a particular type of posts can be found more easily.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:15:11 +0000

Awesome post!

Well, all right, let me answer your question, with a question. Doesn’t google do a good enough job of categorization? If I want to refer back to something I read a while ago, a search engine will quickly lead me back to its source (incidentally, this doesn’t work for things like webcomics, which can be a nuisance). I hardly ever use the organizational effort people put into their website.

If you want to take the easy way out, you could add some keywords, I believe.