a bit of theory

Blogging is great, but it can be sort of perplexing. For instance, it's nice to see the newest stuff at the top, but it's sort of upside down, too. It's antihistorical. Instead of emphasizing the history of something, it deemphasizes it. As I say, that's practical, in a certain sense, but I find it also problematic.

I don't know if that in itself is really going to make a difference, but, at any rate, in this post (the one in the picture, the hub), I'm listing posts from top (the earliest) to bottom (the latest) in the order I add them.

What really is important is that I'm compressing a lot of posts into one fairly small space, here. It's a simple index, but a huge breakthrough (of course, I have those all the time, and look where I am, still). Moreover, I have managed to create two layers of posts, thus compressing the collection even more. One layer is the listed posts, but some of those connect to little loops. They're kind of cool. I'm sort of stuck at two layers, and I'm not sure how I'll end up adding more, but it's a start.

The thing is, this is a web site, built in blogger. The links you use to explore this site, the links that give it its structure, are in the posts. You can completely ignore the context, the blog page, and its controls. The links in the posts give the site structure because there are only one or two in each post. You aren't randomly exploring a cloud of links, you are being guided along a path. Click any link ... well, any internal link ... and you will find yourself traveling along that path. You'll see the logic of it. But, in particular, click the links at the end of each post. Those are the ones that take you along these looping paths I described. Click several of them, and you end up back at the hub. The list of topics is the main path, and the loops take off from there, traveling along strings of end-of-post links. You are now reading a bit of theory. These end-of-post links always look like this: next ..