Ok, good news.

I've been told that we can definitely add categories to the blog creation page. I'm not entirely sure how quickly the categories might be in place, but in the mean time, I want to make sure that the categories I recommend to the developers are representative of what you guys want.

This is what I have, after sorting though our earlier blog [0]

National news

Local news

Education

Entertainment

Food and Drink

News you can use

Music

Literature

Religion 

Breaking news 

A quick explanation behind a couple of these. I chose local and national "news" instead of politics because of it's broader definition. "Breaking News" will probably be used mostly by the MCS staff, but can be used by anyone blogging on a traffic update or something else meeting both the "Breaking" and "News" criteria.

I'm also trying to keep these categories to 10 or fewer, because too much sub-categorization could quickly become just as confusing as not having any categorization at all.

As always, let me know what you think-