I have to admit that I approach the idea of updating pages with a certain amount of trepidation. A page isn't only the information that can be found on it, but a snapshot of a particular moment in (cyber) space and time. Changing it seems to call into question the entire idea of a common, accepted history. True, it seems only helpful that a list of sites gets changed, modified, corrected, or whatever, and if new information gets added, and the out of date removed, who can complain. It's all part of the flow.

But a page (for me at least) has a history, carries a certain character, and I don't always feel comfortable changing it to flow with the information. Which of course raises the questions: what do you do instead?

Until now, other than a couple of very minor changes, I've done nothing. So this is more or less a first experiment with updating, and even more than the rest of this column, it's a work in progress. The main question I ask myself is: should I have a main updates page that lists updates for whichever column "needs" one, or should I thread updates into (at the end of) the columns themselves? Or both?

Stay tuned to see which option wins.

For the time being, this page will function as an update page, with the newest updates at the bottom.

Update for: Make Learning ... Fun? (March 26, 1998):
Well, it used to be there
You mean people really still think that?
Update for: You Call this Work? (May 20, 1998):
Still more proof it's a hot topic
Update for: When Dessert Becomes the Main Course (July 23, 1998):
A metaphor I wish I'd written
From no to know
Update for: Shall I compare thee to a printed page? (June 22, 1997):
Post a page, become an expert
Update for: Plagiarism and the Web (December 22, 1996):
A Boidem Scoop?
Update for: Eleanor Rigby Surfs the Web (November 21, 1998):
On Discussing Public and Private Publically and Privately
Update for: A Community of One? (January 14, 1999):
If he has the time, why don't I?
Update for: Part of the Family? (October 23, 1997):
On keeping a promise
Update for: ...and to get to school we had to walk through... (September 23, 1998):
An unexpected source of light
Update for: Part of the Family? (October 23, 1997)
You mean somebody really did it?
Update for: Only a pawn in their game (May 24, 1999)
Now you see it, now you don't.
Update for Only a pawn in their game (May 24, 1999)
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish
Update for Free (August 25, 1999)
Because he knows so well
Update for for the sin of bad page design (October 26, 1999)
I knew it was there someplace
Update for admit we are powerless over the web (November 26, 1999)
Join the club
Blaise Pascal has something to say about that
Maybe they didn't have anything else to write about
Update for a petal fallen from your soul (September 26, 1999)
A slightly different take on the same idea
Update for for the sin of bad page design (October 26, 1999)
It simply was time already
Update for On the Road (July 27, 2000)
That wasn't very difficult, was it?
More on the fly FTP-ing
Update for Something Much (June 27, 2000)
More proof nobody reads these columns
Update for ... well, for the whole thing.
It was about time
Update for A Community of One? (January 14, 1999)
Let's NOT get together
Update for Gimme, Gimme Gimme! (November 26, 2000)
The Amazing Ubiquity of it All
Update for ... and to get to school we had to walk through ... (September 23, 1998)
After all, I did make the offer.
Update for The Promise of Ubiquitous Access (March 25, 2001)
Just in case anyone was wondering.
Update for The Joys of Spam (January 25, 1997)
seen it!
Update for Bye Bye Bookmarks (March 31, 2003)
I simply forgot.
Update for Still running it up the flagpole (September 30, 2006)
These somehow slipped by me.
Update for Eleanor Rigby Surfs the Web (November 21, 1998)
The web has grown, and changed..
Update for What's the matter with plain old text? (September 28, 2015)
Another example that got away.
Update for In the margins of cyberspace. (January 31, 2005)
Still updating after all these years

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