Traditional blogging and social networking favours the ‘new’ over the ‘good’. In these chronological formats, a piece of writing is most valuable the day it is published and depreciates as it sinks lower down the feed.
Digital gardens turn this notion around. Notes begin small and insignificant as ‘seedlings’ that evolve over time into mature, well-formed opinions. They gain value as they grow. And because the garden exists as a network rather than a list, the effect is cumulative. The garden functions like a compounding asset where the collective whole becomes more valuable than the sum of is parts.
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Digital Gardens Are Never Finished
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The never ending nature of digital gardening means that this compounding can last a lifetime. I find it really exciting to think about the collection of notes and essays that I could curate over the rest of my life.
Reference
� A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden