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February 09, 2005
The End and Ends of Blogging
At least one blogger has come off the high and is off to go find the Kool-Aid Man somewhere else. Great line about "It's great for being part of a 'tell-em' world, blast it out, maybe you will get noticed, maybe ignored." And it seems like the main point is this: "So blogs are blasted out into the blogosphere and if you are lucky you are swamped with links and trackbacks. Then posts age and they are forgotten." What Stuart et al want is to be never gone, and only forgotten if useless or irrelevant.
Blogs emphasize the present, and deprecate the past. Consider this blog: you can look at the most recent post at the top. To see anything earlier chronologically entails work: a scroll. And to find anything from the barely-departed 2004, you used to have to click on the appropriate month & year. But you don't care about the month, but instead what I wrote about, regardless of month. Sure timeliness is important--that's why I write every day. But the idea is, if you are looking at an archive, you don't care about the timeliness. Instead, you care about the content.
It seems like the chief criticism of Unbound Spiral & commentators nails what I've been trying to hit at for a while: we need personal km portals. Combine wikis, blogs, social bookmarks, flatspace, tags, and RSS into one hive of electronic brain-ness that is yours to own and populate, but also others to populate for you.
That's why I've shifted the way my archives are presented. I've been tagging each post with one or more labels. Now you may browse the archives of this blog by the tag, and not by the month. This is less a deprecation of the past than the old month-based archiving, and a small step towards a knowledge portal.
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