field notes
Digital Gardens vs Blogs
What makes a digital garden different from a traditional blog?
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A blog is chronological. A garden is topological.
Blogs are streams — new posts push old ones down. Gardens are networks — ideas connect to other ideas regardless of when they were planted.
The key difference is that gardens embrace imperfection. You can publish a half-formed thought and come back to develop it later — what I call thinking-in-public. A blog post feels like it should be finished.