Help - Gregg Zegarelli

There are multiple ways to use this site effectively. There is full text searching, and Category and Tag listings. Often live hyperlinked Categories and Tags are identified at the top and bottom of index results and article pages.

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First, the indexing is a work in process; that is, the indexing is not yet completed.

The article numbering system generally follows the rule that the lower number was published earlier; that is, an article numbered 10 was published earlier than an article numbered 100 was published relatively later. However, this is not always the case. When the numbering system was first created, it did not contemplate the large volume and so there are inconsistencies, particularly for poems and articles published long ago, which received the omitted numbers or numbering anomalies out of sequence (at least in the catch-up phase).

The numbers are more for tracking at this point than reference for timing, which is now exposed as article metadata.

Most of the articles were first published on LinkedIn, using a hashtag, e.g. “#GRZ_220”, with the GRZ being the author initials and the 220 being a sequential article number. The Essential Aesop fables are all numbered as 98_1, etc.; that is, with sequential numbers after the 98, indicating the fable that matches the physical book. Stated another way, the 98 contains all 113 fables, sub-identified sequentially, 98_1, 98_2, etc.

With the launch of this repository, the hashtag carried over from LinkedIn was not the better system, either for searching or indexing.

There are two new identifiers in the footer of each article: one is a “common” identifier, and one is a “unique” identifier. Both of these are usually identified at the bottom area of each article.

For the most part, the article numbering follows the original LinkedIn numbering, but without the hashtag. However, because articles are referenced between and among each other, a unique identifier for each article was required to allow for the exact article searching.

In other words, the interlinking references all use the “common” identifier, but, if a search to a specific article is required, the “unique” identifier can be used. Otherwise, a search on the common identifier will result is multiple articles all of which reference that article number.

Each article has one “Unique ID” which is unused for referencing in the eco-system. Instead, articles use the common ID. A reader can use either, depending on whether the search is for the (only) original article [UID] or all the articles referencing in the eco-system. In some case, there is an “X” ending for the Unique ID, particularly in the double-digit numbers; this is a “closing character” that prevents a search on, e.g., UID3 from returning UID3, UID30, UID300, so that UID3X cannot return UID300. The better practice is to use the X on all UIDs, but that has not yet been universally implemented. Not using the X will just be less exact than using it where it applies, but still far more limited in results than the Common ID.

There is a “search” box in the upper right of the homepage masthead, and in the footer. The textual search facility is generally powerful and accurate. LinkedIn is an excellent publishing repository, but does not permit scoped research. This will probably improve in the future, but it was not part of the LinkedIn original DNA.

Therefore, a reader can search on text (that is itself rather powerful), or the common identifier, or the unique identifier. That is, a reader can search on “machiavelli” or search on “GRZ220” or search on “GRZUID220” (the interposed “UID” means “Unique ID”). Again, the UID is used only one time in the originating article, whereas the common ID is used by articles that refer back to that article. This gives the reader an option to get one or all.

The Universal ID (UID) system has been carried over to the Movie page. Each clip is given a universal ID beginning with “M” rather than the author initials, e.g., “MUID8X”. These can be searched in the text search box or found by Categories and Tags.

At the bottom of many articles is a list of live hyperlinked tags for further research.

Also, the common indicator may or may not have an eight-digit date designator that follows the date of the last substantive edit, e.g., “GRZ220.20250201” [.YYYYMMDD]. The addition of the edit date indicator does not affect the search, but is for general information only.

Another way of searching is to use the “Categories” dropdown boxes that are readily prevalent on many pages. The Select Tag is only available in the footer.