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Re-writing history May 17. 056

Tackling this re-design has prompted me to consider dropping some of the older less valuable posts from the site, many of these originate from the days when I used a totally different domain name and had a tatty little hand written CMS cooked up with ASP and Microsoft Access (urgh!).

For some bizarre reason I thought it’d make total sense to manually import all my old blog entries when I started out with Textpattern. I guess I felt as though I needed to maintain the information for the good of my readers (er…?) but looking back at my old posts they just totally suck. I mean I couldn’t write a half decent blog post if my life had depended on it… come to think of it, is this post any better? No, actually.. don’t answer that question.

So, getting back to the point… Would I be breaking some unwritten ‘blogging’ law if I was to ‘“step back in time”:http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/kylieminogue/stepbackintime.html’ and start ‘editing’ or ‘deleting’ old blog entries or do you think that’s totally cool?

Actually I’m not even sure why I’m asking you, this is my blog, and I’ll delete what I want when I want. God I’m far too considerate, asking permission from my readers before I make some minor content change. Someone slap me quick before I start asking if I can leave the table to go to the toilet (Sir?).

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Blimey you’ll be asking us where your socks are next!

I say go for it, I mean no-one’s going to miss old macromedia product launch announcements are they?

Posted by Stuart on 17/05/2005 at 02:48 PM

Sorry, did you say you know where my socks are? :)

Posted by Nathan Pitman on 17/05/2005 at 02:48 PM

Second drawer on your right, underneath the wrinkled copies of certain well-thumbed publication!

Posted by Stuart on 17/05/2005 at 02:48 PM

Hrrmmm. Well it’s your site of course. But what’s the argument for deleting em? I mean, are they causing any harm being there, or is it that you just want to pretend that you didn’t Dive Into Blogging (that should be a book!) as boringly as the rest of us?

That said, I did do a little bit of cleaning up in my own archives last year. But I didn’t delete everything. I dunno, it’s your choice really—I don’t think anyone will take great offense either way.

Posted by Turnip on 17/05/2005 at 02:48 PM

If you do, then:

a) I will know that I’m not the only one who has done this (giving me some comfort that I am truly not alone in this aspect).

And,

b) You will risk becoming as big a loser as I am and potentially lose 80% of your readership (although in my case I suppose it has a lot to do with the fact that my design is completely MIA).

:) Just kidding.  Do what you will!!!

Editorialism has some advantages.  I’ve done it to save posterity because of my horrific writing skills.

Posted by Anton on 17/05/2005 at 02:48 PM

Does anyone dive into blogging…, I think I stumbled. :)

I guess that’s the reason for a clean up really. What is now a blog started as a 2 line news snippet about Macromedia product launches etc, which perhaps would now fit better under ‘noteworthy’ in the right column.

Thanks for the input guys, much appreciated.

Posted by Nathan Pitman on 17/05/2005 at 02:48 PM

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