I love and hate Maggie Appleton’s website at the same time. I mean, just look at it. But then the last essay went up almost 2 years ago, and “loose, unopinionated notes” come out at a rate of one every other month.

“Digital gardens” may not the best of metaphors. A garden left on its own will keep growing and may turn into something beautiful. A blog without new articles becomes a museum or, worse yet, a mausoleum with its own flesh-eating aliens.