Been mulling over the shape of blogs, and how the default organization is chronological. Top down, latest to earliest entries. And, what about version control? Most blogs seem to leave entries as written, using comments to adjust or annotate the text. Some bloggers use a strike-through font style to indicate some kind of editing. Besides organizing entries chronologically, there is an attempt in most blogware to assign categories to entries. Most seem to only allow a single category per entry. So finding stuff is left to some kind of search-engine-like functionality. I keep pondering linking entries, both intra- and extra-blog, and need to come up with a style for doing this. So far, I've tended to use a via blog name with links, between square brackets, but these trails are beginning to grow. It's quite easy between Google, Technorati, and individual blogrolls to stray two or three blogs away from home and discover some nice juicy fact that you wish to link to, annotate, and discuss. I wouldn't want to leave out any of the middle blogs as it were.
Anyway, last night I was searching around, and came across some interesting texts concerning version control, content managment systems, and blogware.
Funny that neither mentions Wikis which I think of as ur-blogs. Wikis organize entries according to WikiWords (sort of a cross between headwords, catchwords, and categories). I just need to read, read, re-read, and cogitate. More, later.
Posted by jim at May 30, 2003 01:20 PM