The importance of being unique
Posted on Thursday, December 8, 2005
at 5:22 AM (permalink)
The essential ingredient in a microcontent data model is a unique id for each post. I had been assigning unique ids to each post from the beginning, (Hey, I'm a database guy), but I didn't use them in generating the blog pages. Instead I used the date and time of the post to identify it in URLs, so a post written in the early morning on December 5th would have an address of:
http://darwinianweb.com/archive/2005/1205.html#6:47AM
Now it has a URL of:
http://darwinianweb.com/archive/2005/116.html
David Weinberger has just written a useful essay on the benefits of unique ids for each blog post.
