Digital Gardens
A Digital Garden is on online website taking a new approach to knowledge sharing online. Maggie Appleton summarises the philosophy:
They're not following the conventions of the "personal blog," as we've come to know it. Rather than presenting a set of polished articles, displayed in reverse chronological order, these sites act more like free form, work-in-progress wikis.
A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing.
Source: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A Digital Garden uses links, a bit like wikis.
Mike Caufield is regarded as the person who first set out the principles for a Digital Garden. You can read his essay The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral or watch a short Mike Caulfield Keynote on YouTube.