i'm taking two online classes this semester, and we're suppose to post in "journals," that our professors get to read, but are otherwise private. though we're expected to post to it twice a week. i didn't "get it" at first and was putting my posts on top of each other (deleting the old).
then i realized - ta da! - that i should stack my entries, dating each one, so i would still "have" them all. but then came a new question - how should i order them? newest at the bottom or at the top?
before blogs, i wouldn't have thought to ask this question. newest, obviously, would go at the bottom. in a paper journal, that's really the only option, since we can't predict how long each entry will be. online the custom has become putting the newest post at the top.  continue reading »