I have an idea for a new way to blog. I can’t be the first to think this idea up, but I’m too lazy to figure out the keywords to begin searching the Web to find other people who’ve had this idea. Here goes:
This would be a single blog post, the text of which is updated every morning or night to reflect how your thinking has changed over the course of the past day. For the sake of keeping a record, you could create a new post each day with its own permalink but just paste in the copy from the old post and revise.
In essence, you would be producing 365 drafts of the same post per year, refining as you learn more, adding info, removing out of date information or other bad ideas. You could do one of these per blog or even one per topic area, however you want to set it up.
My rationale: I have a hard time keeping track of what I’ve written about in the past. I tend to forget about things the minute I hit the “publish” button. This way, I would construct a narrative in my head. I would reflect on what I have learned every day. In essence, this would be a diary except that I’m literally building on my old thoughts every day.
I may start this soon. You’ll know when I do because I’ll either add a page just to contain that post-of-infinite-drafts or I’ll make it a sticky post at the top of the homepage. Stay tuned.