In the margins

John Willshire has been pondering web marginilia AKA stuff you put in your sidebar.

He has a particular fondness for the good ol��� blogroll. I���ve still got my analogue equivalent on my homepage���the bedroll. It���s a list of links to people who���ve stayed over. Maybe I should also have a regular blogroll, but I suspect it would just be a reproduction of feeds I���m subscribed to.

Then there���s marginalia at the level of a blog post, rather than a whole blog. Kevin Marks points out that this is something that Vannevar Bush described his theoretical memex doing���a device I was just talking about. Kevin created a proof of concept showing outbound and inbound links.

Outbound links are annoted versions of the A elements in a blog post. Inbound links are webmentions (which should now include this post of mine).

Kevin has those links in the margins on either side of the blog post. I���ve also got links that go with my blog posts, but they���re displayed linearly:

the post itself,any responses (webmentions),related posts, something I only recently added, andposts from the same day further back in time.

Do they still count as marginalia when they���re presented vertically rather than alongside? For mobile devices, I���m not sure there���s any alternative.