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by sandeepshetty 5020 days ago
Thanks for sharing this. I can relate with the idea of rewriting over and over again. I dislike how blogs make the idea of editing content once it's posted feel "dirty" since posts are supposed to be temporal. I'm working on something that solves this problem for me: http://converspace.github.com/ConverspaceSpec/
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I feel similar about the omnipresent blog format: why should everything be final once posted, and everything have to be temporally organized? Old-fashioned "websites" felt better when you don't update often, and you post about more timeless topics.

But for the reader there's a definite advantage: you know exactly what has changed, and whether a site is updated regularly. I have a small blog, and on some entries I maintain changelogs manually. I suppose the best would be for Wordpress and the like to offer the ability to link to cleanly-formatted diffs (ala revisions in google docs).

(and just a heads up: I think your link should point to http://converspace.github.com/specification/... your link gives me a 404)

You link 404's. Did you mean https://github.com/converspace/specification? Looks interesting.