Recently I got all snarky on Jakob Nielsen, although I did admit that he had a few good points about weblog usability, if they were taken for the right reasons.
His point #5 was that "Classic Hits are Buried." I did mention that I had been thinking about this, but that I’d rephrase how he said it.
I am going to go ahead and embark on this road for now. This post is to serve as an overflow and help me figure out how I want to implement this ‘feature.’ What to call them is also a big issue for me. Also, I have chosen far too many to list in a sidebar. So I intend to list all of what I consider some of my best posts here and put 8-12 in a sidebar with one link being something like "Others" that wil point here.
Why are these "best," "classics," "chestnuts," etc.? I’m not exactly sure, at least in some cases. But I either like them or are proud of them for various reasons and they also run a pretty good gamut of ideas that I have blogged about: the military; my highly complex relationship with the country I served for so long (and still continue to serve); my various attempts at conversation and finding my ‘voice;’ musical influences; graduate writings on technology, morality, society and librarianship; and so on. So, without further ado, here they are in chronological order:
I know I will take some flak for this one… 1 Feb 2005
AOL/Timewarner as Corporate Criminal 5 Feb 2005
Selection vs. Censorship; Asheim vs. Atkinson 25 Mar 2005
The Story that I could not tell for Storytelling 26 Mar 2005
Steven M. Cohen is wrong 13 Apr 2005
Todorov on totalitarianism 16 Apr 2005
Public failure at Storytelling 18 Apr 2005
Skiffy? 5 May 2005
Battle and Trumpet 8 May 2005
Baumgartner on moral minimalism 9 May 2005
Can we do away with subject headings? Only if we keep ‘Moral minimalism and libraries’ 29 May 2005
‘Army of One’ to even more lies 5 Jun 2005
Librarian education, or lack thereof 29 Jun 2005
Happy Independence Day 3 Jul 2005
Why Read? (a review) 9 Jul 2005
Recruiting Command asks for my help 18 Jul 2005
An Open Letter to the American Legion 1 Sep 2005
Carnival of the Infosciences #6 11 Sep 2005
Carnival of the Infosciences #9 3 Oct 2005
Walt’s questions 16 Oct 2005
Don’t You Think 23 Oct 2005
Don’t Discredit My Online Degree 23 Oct 2005
Designing Jakob Nielsen 23 Oct 2005
A (virtual) librarians journal club 25 Oct 2005
Well, that’s them for now. You should see a handful of them show up in a sidebar soon. Oh, and feel free to suggest names for the sidebar listing—the wittier, the better—as I doubt I will like whatever I pick at first.
1 response so far ↓
1 Angel // Nov 11, 2005 at 1:59 pm
Wow, you have written some great stuff over time. I remember reading that post letter to the American Legion. I was very irked too when I saw them take that stand. The one on library education spoke to me because I have seen similar in my experience, and I may come back, reread it and post a comment to it. In fact, I just have to keep coming back for the replay. In the meantime, best and keep on blogging.