If you’re a blogger…

…do you ever edit your posts after you’ve made them?

When I first started blogging, generic viagra viagra I heard that many people thought it was somehow illegitimate to change a post after the fact.

I quickly decided it was more important to me that a post said exactly what I meant for it to say even if that meant correcting spelling or changing a word or two after I had published it.

On the very few occasions that an edit actually changed the meaning of a post, buy viagra I have always indicated that I had made an edit.

I ran into a quote online tonight that reminded me that some people would frown on my modus operandi:

I always wrote with the idea that what I put out there is going to stay there. Once I publish something, it has been published. I’ve never deleted more than one or two posts from my site. I don’t think that there are takebacks. I don’t feel right about it.

Alison Headley, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006

So what do you guys think? What’s your practice? Does it matter? Is it better to preserve the “integrity” of the initial post or is it better to achieve clarity of meaning even if it means editing a post after the fact?

11 comments February 24th, 2007