magicsethHello, I am about to convert a newsroom to using WPMU. Currently all of our print material is getting published online with our own in-house system, and the late-breaking news is published on a wordpress blog on our main site.
My question is this: in moving our print content to WPMU (which we want because we will eventually let some readers start their own blogs) should each section of the paper become a category in one blog, or should each section have its own blog?
Sections include: News, Culture, Art, Music...
On the main page of our site, we will have a list of newest posts from each section with links to the appropriate article. We may also want to have a summary of articles in a category that could span blogs i.e. all posts about Obama from News, Art, etc.
I have gone back and forth between whether I should have separate blogs for each section, or just use the same main blog with categories.
One thing I am worried about is a blog dying, i.e. nobody is still writing for it. I can easily imagine an archived category section, where those columns can be browsed, but how do they maintain relevance as extinct blogs?
I have pros and cons for each side, is there a definite right answer?
Thanks
-seth
