Project blogging

John Udell about on the writeable web, the uses of storytelling, and project weblogging (via Radio Free Blogistan and KMpings):

Nice “sanitized picture” of the projects weblog with a commentary

• Time line. In the weblog tradition, recent items appear at the top, and older ones rotate out to archive pages.

• Commentary. Entries on the time line refer to, and comment on, landmark documents.

• Categorized items. The time line generates narrative flow, but it doesn’t categorize items along other important dimensions which are, at the moment, hot issues to resolve, and agreements on how to resolve them. So, these appear in their own columns, and expand on the teasers that appear in the time line.

• Directory. Names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers.

• Files. These include PDFs, spreadsheets, Word documents, HTML documents, and — crucially — selected e-mail messages that I have intercepted and promoted to the status of landmark documents.

It looks like a newspaper and, indeed, serves a similar purpose…

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2002/08/27.html#a183; comments are here.

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