On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:11:50PM -0800, Tom Munnecke wrote: (01)
> I might point out that I have had purple numbers in my blog since
> September, 2002... (02)
Hmm. You do indeed have numbers on your blog, and they are indeed
purple. :-) But what you have is equivalent to the permalinks that all
blogs share, except instead of displaying a hash, you display a
number. (03)
The purple numbers on my blog, on Chris's blog, on PurpleWiki, etc.,
are all more granular than permalinks. In my experience, this extra
level of granularity has been useful. One of the main goals of the
purple number meme is to get people to realize that granularity is
useful, and that the finer the granularity, the better. (04)
Here's the example Matt posted a while back on why we need purple
numbers: (05)
http://www.eekim.com/blog/2003/12/22/idsthething#nidO4 (06)
-Eugene (07)
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