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Paradigm Shift for Blogging Timelines?
StoryMaps strives to change the way people read blogs. The traditional method is simply a top to bottom format with the latest and newest posts appearing on top with each new item pushing the existing piece down a notch and so on. Outside.in's theory is that it isn't wise to keep burying your own posts with each new one. They believe that displaying your posts in a non-linear timeline as presented in StoryMaps would be the ultimate way to do this.
For example, if you've blogged about certain restaurants or other places in your neck of the woods then it would be lost somewhere in your blog and hard to find. However, if you used a StoryMap of your neighborhood then every post you've written about places in that neighborhood will appear as clickable links on the map.
Readers can also easily adjust how far back in time to view posts about that area on your StoryMap. Thus, from the same map and webpage readers can access posts from many different time periods.
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