Ktbuffy shares a link to this post about blog archives.
They’re questions that most bloggers will face after they’ve been blogging for a little while and perhaps have evolved or consciously changed their writing style: Do you go back through your archives and weed out the posts that no longer fit your blog’s style? Or do you leave them as a way to show your blog’s growth and evolution?
To cull the archives or not to cull?
The idea being, “If your writing style has evolved, or the purpose of your blog has changed, is it kosher to trim away the bits that don’t fit any longer?”
For myself — I am an historian. I have a passionate sense of duty toward the historical record, an honesty about what I’ve said. I simply cannot bring myself to lop of stuff I’ve written here — even if some of it is, in retrospect, ill-advised. It was what I thought and felt at the time, and the least I can do is respect who I was and be honest about it.
Your mileage may, of course, vary. And if this was a blog purposed toward something other than my meandering thoughts, I might very well take a different course.
I can honestly say that after 5.5 years of blogging, the question of whether to actually delete old posts had never even occurred to me.
I actually go back through the archives from time to time and update/remove outbound links, just to keep them valid.
I’ll update links if it’s an older post I’m linking back to (and if I remember it). Beyond that, it’s one more project I haven’t time for. 🙂
The only reason I could think a person would do that is if they had something to hide or embarressing to them….but then I am in the same camp as Dave.
And what the heck is this whole style thing about?
**wanders off confused by the concept**