Some weblogs have a calendar as a navigational aid for the weblog archives. Calendar might seem like a natural way to organize chronologically structured information, but it has some flaws. I hereby make a light analysis on the subject. I do not, however, compare it to other possible navigational aids.

My most common use cases related to weblog archives are going through all previous posts and finding a specific post. Let us consider these uses cases in some detail. ... In conclusion, calendar is not a good navigational aid in either of these use cases, which are, in my opinion, rather relevant in real life. Both have a realistic goal, not only because they are derived from my own experiences. Now, I would be glad to hear of some realistic use cases that have real goals that show how calendar might prove to be a good navigational aid. (To emphasize: nobody has a goal to go to a specific date in the archive. Finding out the reason for this is left as an exercise to the reader.) Failing that, let me suggest that we could get rid of those pesky calendars and replace them with something simpler, or, better yet, with something better. (A simple one would be an archive page with the titles of the weblog posts and links to the posts, for example [1].)