Comments on: Oops: Loosening a personal stricture http://walt.lishost.org/2008/03/oops-loosening-a-personal-stricture/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2008/03/oops-loosening-a-personal-stricture/comment-page-1/#comment-32346 walt Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:58:37 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=745#comment-32346 Hi John,

I treat this blog somewhat differently than I treat Cites & Insights, which I regard as a publication–and, as such, “fixed” once it’s published.

But given that I’m fortunate enough to have a fair number of comments, I also treat this blog as semi-fixed. Which is to say, it wouldn’t occur to me to delete old entries, and when I make changes, they’re almost always  usually clearly marked as changes–with the stupid old text crossed out (but still visible), or with a new section introduced with an Update: flag.

That’s me. I don’t at all suggest that it’s what anyone else should do. I’m not even convinced I’m “right.” So far, it’s what I’m most comfortable with.

Almost immediate update: For simple typos, I’m likely just to fix them here. And, in this case, I did the same at C&I. I might do that more often in the future.

]]> By: John Miedema http://walt.lishost.org/2008/03/oops-loosening-a-personal-stricture/comment-page-1/#comment-32345 John Miedema Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:47 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=745#comment-32345 Having noticed this post, and your later one, “Too Random …”, I found myself wondering somewhat about people’s blog policies on updates and deletions. Personally, I regard my blog as a wiki, meant to be updated. I always correct typos to give the post a more professional polish. On rare occasions, I delete posts that I put up too quickly, and that I think are snarky or otherwise inconsistent with my blog purpose. Every so many months, I delete the stuff I feel has no lasting value (or that has begun to irritate even me). I see it as a weeding or distillation process leading to quality. To me, it is a strength of the web that things can change easily, and I want to take advantage of it.

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