What would a different container for online writing look like?

Let's think about the inherent characteristics of the blog format, which I would also see as including most online newsletters with a website archive. These generally have:

• Work that is finished, or mostly finished
• Presented in a linear, time-based format (typically reverse chronological order)
• A sense of permanence of the archive (the idea that you can come back next week or month and the same archived content will still be there for you to see)

I recently joined a paid newsletter for someone where it is just a newsletter. If you're subscribed, you get the content. If you weren't subscribed that month, there's no way to go back and see what you missed.

I found the ephemerality refreshing! It's unusual these days that you can only read something if you are subscribed when the person sends it. I liked the sense of anchoring in time, the lack of unfettered access.

And then there's the typical linear presentation of finished or near-finished work. What would it mean to instead present work spiralically? To present work that's a little less finished, because you know you can take it down again, circle back to it later, add and revise, and perhaps present it again later, in a new context? What would it mean to prioritize discussing the connections between works, instead of expecting the pieces themselves to exist, self-contained and complete, in perpetuity?

(In thinking about this, I was informed by the digital garden approach to putting work online, though many digital gardens have a wiki-like feel, an intent to grow over time, and more permanence than ephemerality. So this project is not a digital garden itself.)