I can't stand it anymore! Reading all these articles on wikis and blogs and blikis... Let the record show that I absolutely hate the word bliki. It sounds stupid.
Anyway, an often linked wikilog is that of Martin Fowler. Kim, however, notes the following:
But the bliki that Martin Fowler has cooked up for himself doesn't seem to allow either comments or wiki-style editing. It seems like you're missing a major part of both wikis and blogs if there's no possibility for user feedback.
Amen, sister. Amen.
Now if I could only get this blog to display articles by category...
Here's my advice to any Internet-enabled individual who claims they are bored.
When you are bored, contribute to the Wikipedia. That's what I'm doing right now. It's pretty fun. And I don't even have my own wiki set up yet...
I have a wiki now.
Edit: 2005-03-15, link removed, no I don't. Yet. =) This post's title was inspired by the show Perfect Strangers.
Blogger should have one of those annoying JavaScripts that prevents the accidently, hacker-type loading of individual frames on the edit page.
Do, doot-do, doot doot do, do, doot-do, da-doot-do! Chik ka pa chik ka pa chik ka put da...
I R GENIUS! HTML would make, like Word documents, a nice way to see revisions for a document. Since I long so much for a collaborative effort, not so much blog, but Wiki, an excellent way to do so would be using timed elements in HTML! Hopefully, intra-super-wrapping content in LI will be good enough, as empty content elements should collapse (or at least I think they do). Anyway, to control said timed elements, a slider-bar would be on the top of the page. The bar represents time, with the current date (either the latest document date or current agent date) would be to the far right. One unit prior to the extreme right would be culmination time, where all of the blue additions and red subtractions are available for viewing. As the user slides the bar (again, representing either real time since, albeit lengthy, or document time, sorta kludgy), the document, via dynamic HTML, will change accordingly, making elements visible/hidden/highlighted.
My now chrono-proficient Wiki would then be the ultimate in all hyper-documents, as its actions could be sorted via nodes (see traditional Wikis) or dates (see traditional blogs). Combined with my secret Trust Web theory, I could be hella famous... Although, as I've stated before, these ideas, however fruitful and clever, may have already been thought of and even executed by minds operating quite faster than mine. To that, I reply, go you.
Edit: March 13, 2005. The above onomatopoetic phrase is the theme to Doug.
Instead of Wiki (which scares the hell out of me, that is, the possibility of all my hard work being nuked... sure there should be backups, but how good is the backup system and how often does it occur?), there should be online Word documents. I recommend Word because I don't feel like inventing my own updateThisDocument protocol. Word has that. All it needs is a place to be uploaded by everyone. I bet that exists too. But then the file size will keep growing... But the work will stay intact. Or something. Like, there could be a slider (I guess?) for the date to reflect all changes of the Word document to that date... [more incoherent thoughts, I know, but whatever...]
Edit: I'm reading this on March 13, 2005 and I have no idea what I was trying to say... Maybe I was just worried about the robustness of a wiki page.