Breaking down the blog into microcontent
Today I started producing blog pages using a model based more completely on microcontent. What this means in practice is that each post now has its own page. I originally wrote the code to produce this blog with a daily organization of posts: the home page held seven days of posts grouped by date, and there was an archive page for each day with all the posts for that day. I realized after a month or so that I don't really write in patterns that fit a day, perhaps because I'm minimally autobiographical. I tend to write 2-3 multi-paragraph posts on different subjects each day. So it makes more sense to treat each post as a separate bead on the string, and move from one post to the next, instead of one day to the next. The internal advantage, is that I can now track the readers' collective attention more easily. Incoming links will be directly to the post, rather than the date, so my readership stats will reflect what is read on a post-by-post basis.

