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My friend Michael tells me that blogging etiquette frowns on bloggers changing posts once they are made - revisionist history?. Instead, bloggers should just make a new post with the new information or add a comment.
I guess mostly I will do that -- however, I am now going back into the Nancy Drew post to situate the context more, as to why I thought of her right now and also into the Bishop Katharine blog to add that the photo pictured was taken from a spot in the Bishop's Garden that I know very well. Minor updates.
I guess mostly I will do that -- however, I am now going back into the Nancy Drew post to situate the context more, as to why I thought of her right now and also into the Bishop Katharine blog to add that the photo pictured was taken from a spot in the Bishop's Garden that I know very well. Minor updates.
posted by Sara Jameson at 12:54 PM
3 Comments:
I don't think minor changes in recent posts are bad. Especially now, when most savvy blog readers read posts through RSS feeds so they know if a post has been updated. I think going back and drastically changing a post seems disingenuous to the process: if that's what you were thinking at one point and it changes, then why not just write a new post with your new views, and go back to the old post and write an update at the end, like "UPDATE: Revision of these thoughts found here" with a link or something.
I've noticed a lot of bloggers will go back and update old posts, especially minor word choice or spelling errors. If it's a content change, usually there'll be some kind of marker letting the reader know about new content.
Very interesting! I'd not thought much about this topic at all!
Lisa
Very interesting! I'd not thought much about this topic at all!
Lisa
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