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Gardens, Not Grave
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01/08/2014 from
alistapart.com/article/gardens-not-graves?utm_source=API%27s+Need+to+Know+newsletter&utm_campaign=8b0cd20b9a-Need_to_Know_July_31_20147_31_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e3bf78af04-8b0cd20b9a-45795445
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At last, someone else using gardening metaphors when discussing content strategy & information architecture:
"The stream—that great glut of ideas, opinions, updates, and ephemera that pours through us every day—is the dominant way we organize content.... Problem is, the stream’s emphasis on the new above all else imposes a short lifespan on content. ... anything older than a day effectively disappears.
Solely relying on reverse-chronology turns our websites into graveyards, where things pile up atop each other until they fossilize. We need to start treating our websites as gardens, as places worthy of cultivation and renewal, where new things can bloom from the old."
- Gardens, Not Graves · An A List Apart Article
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