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Digital Gardening

Page created: 2026-04-11

I really like the term "digital garden" because it makes me imagine a person carefully tending to something, over time, trimming and growing and adding little signs and walking paths.

See also Forever Worlds.

Maggie Appleton does a great job of tracing the many possible evolving meanings of gardening a website in A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden (maggieappleton.com).

Joel Hooks writes in My blog is a digital garden, not a blog (joelhooks.com):

I’m convinced that paginated posted sorted chronologically fuckin' sucks.

What makes a garden is interesting. It’s personal. Things are organized and orderly, but with a touch of chaos around the edges.