The Garden vs The River

Robin Rendle quoting Chris Armstrong:

 … Chris [Armstrong] argues that personal websites could become more like wikis instead:

With digital gardens, every new piece of content in the network has the potential to add depth and context to every other part. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.

I truly love the idea that topics might grow over time with constant refininement [sic]. Expand! Condense! Connect!

I have these two opposing thoughts:

• I like blogs posts over static pages. The syndication is part of it. The idea that it’s a blog post is a little pin in history is part of it.
• Big meaty pages over drips and drabs tend to be more useful. When people think of CSS-Tricks they think of the Flexbox Guide because it was a big meaty page that had all the stuff you needed to know in one place. There are 82 articles about Forms on CSS-Tricks, but not one page that just explains the crap out of them.

The difference, I suppose, is that a personal blog and a site designed to get people technical information, have different content strategy goals.

There are tweener answers as well. Robb Knight has a thought:

I like the idea of redirecting /now to the latest post tagged as now so one could see the latest version of what I’m doing now.

Topical URLs like these “slash pages” don’t have to be static pages. They could be tag listing pages. They could be redirects. They could be generated summaries. We’re using computers, after all.