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I agree. A better model is "articles" or "essays" like PG does.

• hugh3 16y ago
  Exactly. I don't have the patience to maintain a blog, but I can see myself cranking out a few essays a year whenever inspiration strikes. This actually gives me an idea, though, because the trouble with me cranking out essays is that I have nowhere to publish them. Sure, I could put them on my own personal website, but it's too much effort to create one and then find somewhere to host it... and besides, nobody would ever find it. Alternatively I could get a Wordpress blog to host my very occasional essays, but all the blogging sites are set up with blogs rather than essays in mind, so they're really non-optimal. So here's a startup idea for someone: a wordpress clone optimized towards the writer of occasional long pieces rather than frequent short postings.
  • angusgr 16y ago
    Wordpress really presents itself as a generic "publishing platform" these days, it just mostly gets used for blogs. When I was looking around for a new WP theme for projectgus.com (which only gets updated once every couple of months on average), I found quite a few "long form oriented" themes that were intended for people with the kind of use cases you describe. I didn't choose one because I think the traditional blog format works for me, but they certainly exist. If you want to go pure PG-style then you could just use some CSS and plain old HTML. (FWIW, many of my favourite "tech bloggers" only post a few times a year. Those posts are worth waiting for. Mind you, they don't label themselves as "tech bloggers". Ech, what a horrible term. ;).)