Do the last thing first
Serendipitously I chanced on site offering a random selection of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies today, just before I did a google on wiki like blog.
Oblique strategies is a set of cards with suggestions for musicians searching for inspiration and ways to unblock creative impasses. And the card I drew?
"Do the last thing first".
'Hmm', I thought, 'I wonder if that has anything to say to me.....'
I was actually engaged in hunting down information pertaining to an interesting chunk of text I had found previously: "Some blogs allowthe user to store reference pages as part of the blog just as some wikis."
So I did the last thing, googled for wiki like blog, something I should have done before I did the first thing, writing a post on wigi pages, wiki-like pages in a blog. Some interesting results emerged from my search. The best are summarised below. Of course, I should have done this search before, but just didn't have the right search string at the front of my brain. Duh: "Do the last thing first."
So, wiki-like features in blogs have been around, here are two references
Now I'm off to do the last thing first for another project...
Oblique strategies is a set of cards with suggestions for musicians searching for inspiration and ways to unblock creative impasses. And the card I drew?
"Do the last thing first".
'Hmm', I thought, 'I wonder if that has anything to say to me.....'
I was actually engaged in hunting down information pertaining to an interesting chunk of text I had found previously: "Some blogs allowthe user to store reference pages as part of the blog just as some wikis."
So I did the last thing, googled for wiki like blog, something I should have done before I did the first thing, writing a post on wigi pages, wiki-like pages in a blog. Some interesting results emerged from my search. The best are summarised below. Of course, I should have done this search before, but just didn't have the right search string at the front of my brain. Duh: "Do the last thing first."
So, wiki-like features in blogs have been around, here are two references
- Wikipedia on Blikis. I don't agree with the supposition that a true wiki is collaborative -- to me a wiki provides a way of structuring information that is typically collaboratively created and modified, but may be individually created and modified. There are many links to investigate on this page.
- Martin Fowler's WhatIsABliki. He's using a homebrew system implemented in Ruby. However, Martin does not have a comment feature... hmmm, not a variant for me then. Incidentally Martin points to the term bliki as being coined by Ward Cunningham, inventor of wiki.
Now I'm off to do the last thing first for another project...
posted by Mark It Quickly at Sunday, August 27, 2006
2 Comments:
I don't know if it's very blog-like, but have you had a look at TiddlyWiki?
Tiddlywiki is a strange beast, a wiki for personal use. Great for personal note taking. I have one on my laptop, unfortunately neglected.
The advantage to TiddlyWiki is that it doesn't require any installation, nor does it require a web server. One just downloads a TiddlyWiki and starts to edit it. For communal use, one could pass a TiddlyWiki around by email like a relay baton. For communal reading, it could be placed in a server's web space. But that's about it for communal use, I think.
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