Information blogging guidelines
Information blogging guidelines (IBG) is a list of templates and goals for displaying information on a webpage. There are 5 templates and 3 goals listed below.
Templates
- This post is a list of...
- This post is a collection of...
- This post is a timeline of...
- There are __ _____ listed below alphabetically.
- There are __ _____ listed below chronologically.
Goals
- Minimalism and clarity of information
- Standardization across IBG posts
- Networks of IBG websites and blogs
I want to find people who want to convert their knowledge into the format of IBG and create new reference works. I'm optimistic that someday there can be thousands of websites that use IBG to create a decentralized network of compatible reference works.
The goal of IBG is to minimize the extra noise on an information web page. Instead of having to scroll around on a web page and read through paragraphs, I believe that information is best displayed when its at the top of the page with as few distractions as possible. The idea is to create the most minimal and information dense web pages possible.
If two bloggers make a post on the same topic using IBG, both posts would exist just as two different web pages on the same topic can exist on the internet. I imagine that there would be curators who would create collections of posts from various blogs. The curator of one of these collections would select their preferred post on a specific topic if there were multiple posts on a topic. The curators who create lists of IBG posts would be responsible for helping readers find posts and essentially create the network.