Alpha 0.6 of SpokenWord.org now seems fairly stable. The biggest change since 0.5 is the deployment of Categories as I blogged about a few weeks ago. I decided to copy the iTunes taxonomy after all for a few reasons.

1. Although the sub-categorization is poor, the top-level categories are reasonable.
2. All taxonomies are flawed.
3. You can spend the rest of your life trying to tweak a taxonomy.
4. No matter what you do, a lot of people won’t like your sense of organization.
5. I can pass the blame onto Apple.
6. Since most programs are submitted to SpokenWord.org via RSS and with <itunes:category> elements, we get automatic categorization of the majority of programs.
7. When we generate RSS output, there’s a decent chance we can automatically include an <itunes:category> element that iTunes will accept.