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Disrupting IT and WikisDisrupting IT and WikisDisrupting IT and Wikis 05/24/2004 11:21 PM Great article by Jim Louderback in eWeek on how social software, social networking and wifi are disruptive technologies for IT like PCs were. Makes specific Wiki IT recommendations.... This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)Disrupting IT and WikisGrok Headline matches for Disrupting IT and WikisNow do one about wikisNow do one about wikis 03/12/2003 06:04 PM As far as I can tell from my chair far from Austin, Scott's bet-winning song was the best thing about SXSW this year: Sitting in Austin, Why I hate WikisWhy I hate Wikis 08/19/2004 10:16 AM Jimmo explains why he hates Wikis Wikis in Forbes Best of the WebWikis in Forbes Best of the Web 12/19/2004 03:05 PM Nice article on wikis in Forbes Best of the Web, here's an excerpt on Socialtext:One firm already focused on trying to apply wiki technology to the enterprise market is Palo Alto, Calif.-based SocialText, which offers a simple wiki interface that... More about searching wikisMore about searching wikis 02/01/2005 10:02 PM Ross Mayfield: Meanwhile, Jimmy Wales and others are working on Wikia, a wiki search engine, and Wikipedia produces a nice diff feed. Adapting to MediaWiki covers 1/4 of public wikis. There are well over 100 open source wikis, a wonderful diversity to respect, and search engines would do well to adapt to them over time just as they have with less standard blog implementations. Wikis In SchoolsWikis In Schools 03/17/2005 03:08 AM Students working on writing projects are accessing their teacher's wiki from their Safari bookmark toolbar on their Macs via Apple's Rendezvous. By Chris Jablonski, ZDNet Tim Berners-Lee on WikisTim Berners-Lee on Wikis 03/19/2005 03:10 AM TBL at a seminar in Finland, Berners-Lee's original vision of the web was as a resource for collaboration. He said that so far it had been "a big disappointment" in this respect, although exceptions such as "wikis" - essentially interactive... "Der Stein der Wikis""Der Stein der Wikis" 04/11/2005 11:43 PM Atom for WikisAtom for Wikis 10/28/2003 11:06 PM With the recent upspike in interest in Atom for Wikis, I just thought I would jot down a few thoughts on the subject ... Wikis AnonymousWikis Anonymous 09/07/2004 04:43 AM Brian Lamb has a great article on wikis in academia in EDUCAUSE Review. I didn't interview for the piece (otherwise would have shared how academic communities are using Socialtext), but Brian more than did his homework and sources from some... Enterprising bl0gs, wikis and RSSEnterprising bl0gs, wikis and RSS 03/25/2005 04:56 PM ZDNet Mar 25 2005 9:43PM GMT Wikis for Yahoo Users?Wikis for Yahoo Users? 04/18/2005 07:02 PM Swaroop wants to Wikify Yahoo! Notepad. Did you even know we had a Yahoo! Notepad? I bet many of you did not. I used to keep my grocery list on it back in 2000, but eventually gave that up for some reason. I still don't know why. I say we take it step farther and give some wiki space to every Yahoo! Group as well. I wonder how many groups would use it... Where else should Yahoo have wiki functionality... Monitoring wikis worldwideMonitoring wikis worldwide 01/01/2005 02:58 PM Newsfeed search engines like Technorati, Feedster, and PubSub make
it easy to monitor blogs and news sites. You can subscribe to a search
newsfeed to be alerted whenever a blog entry or news items matches
your
search criteria. But how do you monitor all of the wikis of the world?
The newsfeed search engines don't monitor wiki recent changes
newsfeeds, or do they? I googled and turned up some wiki pages on InterWi kiSearchEnginesDiscussion and UnifiedRecentChange s. Looks like there is plenty more work to be done in this area. Time Article on WikisTime Article on Wikis 06/05/2005 11:47 PM It's a Wiki, Wiki World: Time Magazine has an article about wikis in its latest issue. They focus on Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia of course, but they cover wikis in general. This line was interesting:
There's a wiki written in five lines? Does each line have 1,000 semi-colons? Free Desktop WikisFree Desktop Wikis 06/17/2005 04:46 PM wikidPad is now a Sourceforge project with a BSD-style license. I've been using wikidPad since last February and consider it... Do Wikis Have a Place in the Newsroom?Do Wikis Have a Place in the Newsroom? 09/08/2004 09:48 PM Mark Glaser, in the Online Journalism Review asks a very big question: Do Wikis Have a Place in the Newsroom? He covers the latest tests to Wikipedia authority, the Wemedia Project and gets comment on public wikis: "Most user-generated content... Wikis winning waysWikis winning ways 06/20/2004 12:16 AM via Satish Talim Patterns, Wikis, and APIsPatterns, Wikis, and APIs 05/21/2004 02:11 PM Using Wikis for content management...Using Wikis for content management... 01/09/2004 10:15 PM So here's a thought partly inspired by an e-mail from a work colleague and partly by Haughey.com. Creating and editing wiki pages is extremely simple and elegant once you get past the first 30 minute learning curve. And essentially you end up with a page that's got an incredibly simple template, pretty well marked-up code (or at least could do if you used the right Wiki system) and can be edited incredibly quickly. Now, imagine for a moment that the Wiki page itself is nothing but a content management interface and that the Wiki has a separate templating and publishing engine that grabs what you've written on the page, turns it into a nicely designed fully-functioning (uneditable) web-page and publishes it to the world. It could make the creation of small information rich sites enormously quick - particularly if you built in FTP stuff. Now one of the problems with using Wikis generally is that they don't lend themselves to the creation of clear sectionalised navigation. Nor do they do naturally find it easy to use graphic design, colour or layout differently on separate pages to communicate either your context or the your location in the site. That's not to say that Wikis are broken, of course, just that the particularly networked rather than heirarchical model of navigation that they lend themselves towards isn't suitable for all kinds of public-facing sites (the same could be said of the one-size-fits-all design of the pages). This would clearly be a problem. Wikis sacrifice that kind of functionality on the whole in order to gain advantages in other areas (ie. collaborative site generation and maintainance). Without those advantages, you'd simply be left with an inferior product. So how to integrate design and architecture into the production of a wiki-CMSed website? Well, it's not a particularly new question with regard to wikis generally - loads of suggestions about how some kinds of heirarchy could be built in have been made and some of them implemented. On the whole they've not been terribly successful as they present a higher level of user-level complexity, and with a lot of potential naive users, publically editable wikis can't really afford complexity. But that's not true if only one person or a small group were to be updating the site. The complexity level could increase a bit and the learing curve would have to be just a little steeper initially. Here's an example of how you could create heirarchy and utilise different templates at the level of the individual page. First, imagine a templating interface that allowed you to create an outline heirarchy of the various sections of a site (just like you'd produce in the outline view of Word or using something like OmniOutliner). Now, each section of that site-map could have a distinct template attached to it, or inherit a template from the section above. Then all you'd need on the Wiki-page (as content-management interface) would be a drop-down box on the right that allowed you to choose which section the page you'd created would sit under. Given that, you could use the mechanics behind the templating engine automatically generate a variety of different models of heirarchical navigation and breadcrumb trails which you could embed into your templates (you could use a templating mechanism very much like the one used to move content chunks around weblogs using Typepad). And the same part of the Wiki page that you use to decide which section the wiki page should be contained within could also house a .gif thumbnail of the template for that page. And the assigned section of a new page could even default to that of the page from which you created it - forward-link from a page about Troubleshooting (in the section "Help") to create a page about Error Messages, and Error Messages is automatically created inside the "Help" section initially. And all of this could then be 'published', pushing everything out in a lovely stylish elegant and visually rich format to the rest of the world at the push of a button. Wouldn't that be cool? Blogger-style management for all kinds of other sites... The only things that don't seem obvious to me at the moment is how you make the intra-wiki links not look like Wiki links to the general public while preserving the ease of use that they engender for the person creating the pages... Any thoughts? Wicked (Good) WikisWicked (Good) Wikis 03/06/2004 01:49 AM Blogalyst Stowe Boyd has a seriously great article on wikis in Darwin. Its a good intro to wiki, compares them with weblogs, highlights their emergent properties and role as social tools. ...Wikis are built upon an inherently open model of... IT Heavies Lifting Dollars for WikisIT Heavies Lifting Dollars for Wikis 07/27/2004 02:42 PM Michael Singer of Internet.com covers an enterprise view of the BlogOn event: The industry itself has shifted from its early adopter stage to an "awkward adolescence," according to experts attending last Friday's BlogOn 2004 conference here. But major IT players... Disney Enterprise Webl0gs and WikisDisney Enterprise Webl0gs and Wikis 02/10/2004 06:45 PM Mike Pusateri, Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman at Disney shares their enterprise blogging initative: Using RSS for content distribution Using RSS Enclosures to deliver video to 2 million broadband users. Some argue that enclosures don't scale and their not enough... 10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis 04/13/2004 02:17 PM i don't know that I agree that blogs are like marriage, but the advice is pretty good overall "10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis""10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis" 04/14/2004 09:03 AM WikiBibliography Offers Information on
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