From Mindspillage

The blog here is a "blog" only in a pretty loose sense: occasionally I will put pages in category "Blog", which pushes them to an RSS feed, and to a dynamically-generated page entitled "blog". (Comments go through the ArticleComments extension, which is just a fancy way of making it easy for people to post to the talk page without straying from the normal blog comment form comfort zone, and then including the talk page underneath the rest of the page body.)

It is more complicated and kludgey than WordPress, yes. But it avoids some things I hate about blogs.

Pages probably will not be "blog entries" so much as generic pages which I think might be interesting enough to push to the temporally-oriented feeds. But one of the things I hate about most blogs is the temporal focus. Entries are frozen in time, which updates to the material coming in the form of new posts, entirely separate, adding to the old. Commenting on an old post is usually a faux pas and is never going to add to the discussion, as no one else will find it and respond after the post is no longer new. It makes the effort seem wasted.

There are some blogs, even, that cut off comments after a fairly short time period; a week or two. That to me is depressing, and a style that's anathema to me. I hate encountering one of these, having something I want to add, and being shut out.

I think having "blog" entries be not only temporally-organized but also existing as a natural part of the site as a while will lessen that problem. Also, I may re-push pages to the feeds if the content changes enough. Also, a complete history of updates and corrections will be visible in the page history.