Blog Posts that Change
Clarence Fisher,
Oct 07, 2011
I have blog posts that auto-publish on certain days. That's a pretty essential feature for someone who may be in all-day meetings or all-night flights. But blog posts that change - as described here - well, that's just a bad idea. First of all, it breaks syndication - people can no longer read the posts on RSS or by email because the changes won't work properly. Second, it breaks the flow. Going back to look at old web pages again and again was the way we did it before we create blogs and feeds. And we created these things because it was really annoying to go back and look at the same page again and again. Finally, if you think you're really making content disappear, think again. It's just being copied and pasted into Facebook. So if you want to give them updated information, just give them a new post - auto-time it, even. And let the wonderful mechanisms of blogging and syndication work the way they were designed to work.
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