Like a website designed by Borges with OCD, Slate has taken its organizational impulse to a new level. Increasingly minute divisions in Slate’s content are filtered into increasingly nebulous departments – presumably someone thinks this is useful. Just a cursory look at some of these headers strongly suggests that someone on the masthead has lost the plot. Decide for yourself:
The Boxes:
press box
chatterbox
ballot box
culturebox
moneybox
music box
sandbox
Categories Suggesting Daily Content:
day to day
diary
dispatches
Content from Somewhere Else:
today’s papers
in other magazines
summary judgment
cartoon index
Doonesbury
Slate Knows Best:
explainer
history lesson
dear prudence
everyday economics
Redundancies:
jurisprudence
supreme court dispatches
And a Fraction of the Rest:
war stories
architecture
kausfiles
readme
poem
shopping
fighting words
brave new world
ad report card
tv club
politics
fraywatch
foreigners
movies
slate fare
corrections
assessment
damned spot
left field
gaming
webhead
gizmos
well-traveled
Categories