Archive: 2008 September 04

Your Blog is a Marching Wiki

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-09-04T20:16:06Z in Personal Development, with these tags: blogging, congruity, goals, growth, internet, life, links, wikis, writing, 0 Comments. 1,163 words.

When I think of a wiki, I think of a collection of articles that can be edited by anyone. But wikis have another core trait. If you’ve ever looked up an article on Wikipedia, you’ve noticed that practically every other word is a link to related articles in the wiki.

There are no direct links to external sites. All those are footnotes or references, appearing at the bottom of the page. But within the text, there are internal links all over the place. It’s a self-contained Internet.

I think your blog should be the same way. This isn’t reasonable …