Maybe I had too much of that Cartesian & encyclopedic worldview drilled into me in French schools but I often wish there was an easier way to find things on the European Tribune. Some categories, classifications, or something other then Google or the site's search engine which seem to be somewhat random or pull up too much information.
There's also the ET wiki - maybe a hyerarchy of topics could be set up and people could insert links to their diaries in the appropriate places within the hyerarchy? guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
Another option is to use the Technorati tags to do this. That would work if it was possible to search those tags just for ET postings. However, I could not figure out a way to do that. Again to make this work it might help to come up with a small number of key categories maybe one geographic & one topical. For example:
