Tempolinks
Filed in: blogging, Mon, Dec 29 2003 16:21 PT
Don Park commented recently on permalinks not actually being permanent, especially when bloggers flip from one app to another. The side effects are usually minor for the author, but the secondary effect is that all of the sites that have linked to them now 404, which is bad on both sides of the equation.
This is more or less why I started writing my own blogging software. I wanted to make sure that I could have absolute control over my content, including my URIs, and mix it up any way I want. I have about three lines of server-side code that gives me a little flexibility with my physical directory structure, but that’s all. Permalinks are neato. They should be respected even when you change blogging apps.
