* * * * *
                                        
                              Still blogging along
                                        
> Despite the prevalent definition of weblogs as “links” pages, if one
> actually looks around at what's being published on blogs, they will find
> not only links and commentary, but news, diaries, photos, poetry, mini-
> essays, project updates, even fiction. What's consistent—and unique to the
> format—is a simple, approachable, and—with tools such as Blogger, GrokSoup,
> Manila, and Pitas—extremely convenient way to publish information to one's
> own web space at the “chunk” or paragraph level, versus the page, which
> requires much more complexity and overhead.
> 

Evan Williams on Weblogs [1]

I've got the creation and manipulation of “chunks” down, it's the
presentation that I'm still working on and is proving to be a difficult
problem.

I mean, how do you handle navigation when the user can select an arbitrary
portion of text?

But I'm still working on it.

[1] http://www.evhead.com/?archive=2000_08_01_ev.xml#580263

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

.