Postmarks Postscript

December 18, 2005

OK, I jumped the gun on my Postmarks post. After writing the article of how I planned to manage the various places I’d been, I then decided to actually implement the system. Using Posts to capture the What, When and Where was working just fine. The CopyURLPlus extension worked great and made the whole thing quite easy. However, after I got a couple posts into it (yes, I was retroactively adding things to my Postmarks category), I started encountering entries that I felt awkward about adding.

Specifically, when I got to forum threads where I had quoted others and then broke up my response in between quoted sections. See my second post on this thread: “div not completely wrapping contents.” Sure I could just copy my whole response, quotes and all, but something didn’t feel right.

Then, the more I thought about, the more I disliked duplicating my comments regardless of whether there were complexities involved. I’d almost describe it as a feeling of guilt. In effect, I was duplicating content from another discussion and potentially starting my own discussion since Comments were on. So, rather than consolidating information, I had duplicated parts out of context and fragmented the conversation. I definitely didn’t like the data duplication and I felt that the branching violated the spirit of open communication.

So, my new system is this: Add the item as a new Link in WordPress and assign it to the Postmarks Link category. I’ll display the latest 10 or so links in the sidebar for now. One day I might build a page to display them all. Granted, I’ll miss having the What posted as content on the site and there’s always the potential that the When isn’t captured correctly on the original site, but I’m content with just knowing the Where for now.

Sorry for the misdirection in the initial post. Live and learn.

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