David Nunez : Information doesn’t expire
I was searching for a solution to a work-related problem and I stumbled upon David Nunez’s blog. In it, he states:
In fact, that’s the one: People indoctrinated in using sequential streams of linear data to convey their thoughts will struggle with the concept of a graph of nodes that represent their publishing. We’re used to associating our blog reading with questions like “Gee, I wonder if so-and-so wrote anything new today,” and even built tools to keep up with this chronological organization (ex. rss readers).
The thing is, time is not a very usable way to organize information. In fact, as people are reaching their multiple-year anniverseries of blogging, there are enormous amounts of very valid and useful or entertaining content that is no longer read because we’ve decided “newer is better.. let the ‘old’ stuff (i.e. last month’s news) fall away into ‘the archives’.”
Bullshit. Information doesn’t expire. Ever.
I couldn’t agree more. Time is a bad way to categorize information. When in doubt on HTML stuff, I sometimes refer to the very first site I used to deal with HTML: The NCSA HTML Primer. I looked at this document in 95 and learned how to make HTML pages. The site is well over 10 years old but it’s still very, very useful.
Who says new is better.