As website owners and content creators, we have a duty toward the users of our content. When we blog about something, the information we throw to the world could very well become dated and wrong.
What Can We Do?
When you write about a modern topic, that post is almost guaranteed to become stale and useless, if it sits the way it is. As such, there are a few things you might do:
- Keep a clear separation between posts you’re willing to curate, and those that are simply snapshots of life (real blog posts)
- Set a kill-time for each (curated) post when you create it; after which it is no longer viewable by the public, and becomes hidden until you can revisit it and freshen it up
- Allow errata to be submitted to curated pieces, so that readers can help you improve the article
- Keep a list of the curated pieces, possibly by listing links to those pieces on a separate page
I’m thinking of doing the above with this blog. Some of the posts I’ve written won’t be useful in the near future, and others should be upkept so they always provide correct information. Perhaps I’ll implement these steps in the next iteration of my design.
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