Paul Ford’s Ftrain

October 29, 2005

I’ve been enjoying Paul Ford’s Ftrain site for most of the morning. At its core is a blog of anecdotes, mini-essays, and fictions, as you can see from the front page. But I like the way it provides multiple points of entry: the typical reverse-chronological list, the much less common forward-chronological ordering, and the almost never seen true hierarchical index. You can navigate the indices from any point, including the hierarchical index using a small popup info window with information and links like:

This is Laundromat by Paul Ford, published Wednesday, October 12, 2005. It is part of Walking/Riding, which is part of Semiautobiography, which is part of Story

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The author link is necessary because he writes under a couple of pseudonyms.

I also appreciate the collector’s instinct demonstrated by his Anthologies which, together, comprise a digital commonplace book. Clearly I am fond of those…

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