Weblog calendars useless?
Last week Jonathan Delacour removed the calendar from his weblog and explained why in Say goodbye to useless calendars:

it occurs to me that I never use the monthly calendar to access previous posts on my own site or any other site I visit. And, a quick check of my blogroll revealed that only a third of the sites displayed the standard weblog calendar on their main page. Those who don't have a monthly calendar include links to either monthly (the majority) or weekly archives.

He goes on to complain about weekly archives and their effects on google searches, and he points to a full-screen calendar with post titles and a photo randomizer for a possible replacement tenant for the screen real estate vacated by the calendar. [Radio Free Blogistan]

Every once in a while I use a web log's calendar to browse back a bit to read more. My frustration has always been that I don't have any way to organize all the content I've piled into my logs day after day. Searching only works if I know what to search for.

It's a paradox, isn't it? The log archives daily thoughts on the web, available to anyone at random, but not to the author.  9:17:36 PM