One of the problems with Wordress Blog sites is the difficulty for users to find old posts, and maintaining their relevance long term. I have been editing this website for at least 5 years and there are well over 400 postings so locating the most relevant information f0r a particular problem is very difficult. Furthermore in a fast moving field like Climate Science with both scientific and political news, it is hard to keep relevant all posts older posts. Climate Science also changes both in nuance and in results over time which is also of interest.
Recently I discovered a new service called PixiBook which aims to provide a physical book service based on your selection of Blog details. The advantage of this is the ability to define and synthesise into a single “Book” just the important posts. You select which are the most relevant posts for your defined subject. From this information PixxieBook translates all the posts to pages within the same physical “book” in chronological order. The final book format is high quality and visually pleasing. The optimum book length is about 200 pages which results in 3 Books with 2 focusing on Climate Science.
Here are two examples I made of the three books. The first (Volume 2) contains my most recent posts.
The second is nothing directly to do with Climate Science. It covers my time spent at the African Union and later travels
The interface of using a physical book to locate relevant information is very nice, but of course you can’t provide 100s of quite expensive books to anyone who might be interested.
So I am thinking instead of trying to develop a structured index which could better link posts together in topic and time.
Did I even know that you were with the AU? In Addis or remotely?
I was seconded to Addis working at the AU for about 3 months. I helped set up a bespoke version of EMM (Europe Media Monitor) called AMM (Africa Media Monitor) . It was a good experience.