Comments on: The Blogcruft Elimination Project http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/18/the-blogcruft-elimination-project/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:16:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/18/the-blogcruft-elimination-project/#comment-1282 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:48:23 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/18/the-blogcruft-elimination-project/#comment-1282 <i>Personally, I check many blogs (and other websites) once a week, and having a calendar there allows me to jump back one week </i> Fair enough, if you perversely insist on doing it this way and not using RSS :-). For everyone else, there's nothing special about "a week ago", and no particular reason to want to see what was posted at that particular time. People may well want to read the last several posts, which a "most recent posts" thing like mine does well enough. And, if that's not enough, a complete-archive page does the trick. My crappy dateless post archive is <a href="/archives" rel="nofollow">here</a> (not that dates in the archive often actually do add much information); the Coding Horror dated archive is <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Personally, I check many blogs (and other websites) once a week, and having a calendar there allows me to jump back one week

Fair enough, if you perversely insist on doing it this way and not using RSS :-).

For everyone else, there's nothing special about "a week ago", and no particular reason to want to see what was posted at that particular time. People may well want to read the last several posts, which a "most recent posts" thing like mine does well enough.

And, if that's not enough, a complete-archive page does the trick. My crappy dateless post archive is here (not that dates in the archive often actually do add much information); the Coding Horror dated archive is here.

]]> by: Matt http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/18/the-blogcruft-elimination-project/#comment-1279 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:55:07 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/08/18/the-blogcruft-elimination-project/#comment-1279 Can't say I agreed with much of what he had to say. Personally, I check many blogs (and other websites) once a week, and having a calendar there allows me to jump back one week and start reading, without having to work out what the date was last Monday. And what about #10 - Blogging about blogging? "Meta-blogging is like masturbating." Well then, Jeff, get it out of my face, thanks. Can't say I agreed with much of what he had to say. Personally, I check many blogs (and other websites) once a week, and having a calendar there allows me to jump back one week and start reading, without having to work out what the date was last Monday.

And what about #10 - Blogging about blogging? "Meta-blogging is like masturbating." Well then, Jeff, get it out of my face, thanks.

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