I think that many blogs still think of their first page as the first page of a book, making next go to page two, and previous go to page one. This does not seem to be the majority though.

On the one hand, if you turn it up, it puts out more cold air, making the room cooler; but in fact you’re turning it down on the dial…

But on the other hand, if you turn it up, relative to degrees on the dial, you’re going to make it warmer in the room.

I say previous is previous. It’s the past. Relative to where you are now, the previous things in life are those that are older. If I click a link that says ‘Previous Entries’, I expect those from the past – the older ones. ‘Next Entries’ really isn’t particularly descriptive in my mind, but if it’s not a previous entry, what is it? Obviously in this case, if you put 2 and 2 together, next would mean newer.

Or we could just standardize the whole thing with “Older Entries” and “Newer Entries” and be done with it.

I use “previous entries” to direct readers to entries I have written, uh, well, previously. I do this because most of the time I’m wearing a nifty policeman style hat that has “Captain Obvious” embroidered on the front. That said, should there be a standard? I think thats basically overthinking the concept of the navigation link and blogging in general.

It seems to me that the concept of fast-forward/rewind on a blog is generally already there. The defaults on most blog systems are as we say and someone usually has to go out of their way to create the confusion mentioned… which possibly means they have a reason for having done so.

Should their be a standard in place? Which do you use, and why?

Ahem, you mean “Should THERE be a standard in place? Which do you use and why?