A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete – notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing.
Great read: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
This article is really thorough and interesting, and it comes at just the right time for me, in the planning stages for what was going to be a linguistics blog but which I now realise would be better as a linguistics ‘garden’. Time to brush up on some basic HTML instead of hitting ‘new blog’ on WordPress I think! Thanks!
Jun 23rd, 2023 / 9:35 pm