I fininshed up my comments (begun on Feb. 20, 2003) on blogging in that entry, rather than ending it up here and having a disjointed narrative.

Not that it’s going to be smooth reading either way…..

Actually, that’s a limitation to the format of blogs — since they are chronological (in reverse), reading them top-to-bottom is an often dizzying, Memento-like experience.

And it forces blogger to (hopefully) insert notes in:

1. Current blog, indicating change below
   
2. Blog edited (if it makes sense — if you change a quotation you can indicate in the current blog; if a section is continued — as I did — it’s professional to mark the demarcation point