Elliotte Rusty Harold on Why Blogs Work:
Until blogging. The big difference between all the major blogging platforms and pretty much everything that came before them is that in blogging users don’t choose the URLs. Therefore users don’t think about hierarchies. They just type some data into a Web form or GUI client and press a Publish button. (Figure 2) The blogging system then chooses a URL for them and it organizes the hierarchy without bothering the user.
When I blog, I don’t have to think about the blog. I write a post, and click “publish”.
Elliotte is right about URLs. I don’t need to invent URLs, they just happen for me. And they’re smart, friendly and permalinks.
And I don’t think about layout. Does this post go in the left column or right? does it bump another post from the top? how long will it stay on the front page?
It’s hard to do content layout with a blog. So I don’t. New posts always go to the top.
Two restrictions that are incredibly liberating.
Blogs work better than CMS because I only need to decide one thing, and it’s the only decision I care about right now: what to write in this post.
(Via Raganwald)
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