Really interesting to learn (via Desmond) that Martin Fowler has a post about the link between blogs and wikis, from 2003(!).

Beyond the name, however, there’s the very ephemeral nature of blog postings. Short bursts of writing that might be interesting when they are read – but quickly age. I find writing too hard to want to spend it on things that disappear.

“I find writing too hard to want to spend it on things that disappear” – I love that as a little epigram for why you might want a digital garden.

Martin calls the blog and wiki combo his bliki.

Like a blog, it allows me to post short thoughts when I have them. Like a wiki it will build up a body of cross-linked pieces that I hope will still be interesting in a year’s time.

As a word, I’m not so keen on ‘bliki’ (although back then Martin didn’t like the word ‘blog’, and well here we are now, I don’t give it a second thought).

But blikis as a concept – I’m all in.