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'''04 October 2007 - Googling "toolswiki"'''<br> | '''04 October 2007 - Googling "toolswiki"'''<br> | ||
I Googled "toolswiki" as a way to find this website (the URL includes "toolswiki.ouvaton.org"). There are several varieties. "ToolsWiki" in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case CamelCase] belongs to a [http://www-theory.lbl.gov physics site], although the wiki itself seems broken. The page called [http://www-theory.lbl.gov/toolswiki/index.php?title=Monte_Carlo_Generators Monte Carlo Generators] on that site is a long list of links to porn sites. This seems to be [[WikiSpam]]. My site is "toolswiki" all in small letters. For "toolswiki" the Google list includes a pointer to the main page of [http://communitywiki.org CommunityWiki]. Not because "toolswiki" is listed anywhere on the CommunityWiki page (it isn't), but because Raindog's Blog '''points to''' CommunityWiki. Just how does Google work anyway? | I Googled "toolswiki" as a way to find this website (the URL includes "toolswiki.ouvaton.org"). There are several varieties. "ToolsWiki" in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case CamelCase] belongs to a [http://www-theory.lbl.gov physics site], although the wiki itself seems broken. The page called [http://www-theory.lbl.gov/toolswiki/index.php?title=Monte_Carlo_Generators Monte Carlo Generators] on that site is a long list of links to porn sites. This seems to be [[WikiSpam]]. My site is "toolswiki" all in small letters. For "toolswiki" the Google list includes a pointer to the main page of [http://communitywiki.org CommunityWiki]. Not because "toolswiki" is listed anywhere on the CommunityWiki page (it isn't), but because Raindog's Blog '''points to''' CommunityWiki. Just how does Google work anyway? | ||
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| + | '''29 September - ThreadMess''' | ||
| + | Ward Cunningham's original C2 wiki has a page about ThreadMess. This brought to mind WikiMess, which I Googled, coming up with:<br> | ||
| + | http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WikiMess<br> | ||
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| + | This is a page on what looks like a pretty interesting wiki: | ||
| + | http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?Entry_Point | ||
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| + | ''' September - MeatballWiki and Sunir Shah on Wikipedia''' | ||
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| + | On Wikipedia I transformed the MeatballWiki article from a stub to a regular article, and created a new article on Sunir Shah. Since Sunir should have had an article long ago, I surmised internal Wikipedian resistance to this article, and expected a reaction. There was none. Apparently all the peevish Wikipedians have lost interest in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MeatballWiki MeatballWiki conflict] and gone on to something else. | ||
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| + | Thinking about useful links to be found on other peoples' blogs, I went to Google and typed "best blogs." The most interesting thing I found was technorati (which I had of course heard of, but never intentionally visited), which gives a list of the most popular blogs: | ||
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| + | http://technorati.com/pop/blogs | ||
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| + | From a first selection my favorite is: | ||
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| + | http://lifehacker.com | ||
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| + | I should try to keep track systematically of sites and blogs. Here's another one: http://blog.guykawasaki.com. (I have started a separate list of blogs at [[User:RainDog/Blog List]].) | ||
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| + | == 21 September 2007 == | ||
| + | '''Ward Cunningham and the Wiki Wiki Web'''<br> | ||
| + | http://c2.com: the website of Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki concept.<br> | ||
| + | http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors: this part of c2.com is Ward's original wiki, the Wiki Wiki Web.<br> | ||
| + | http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory: an article about the history of wiki.<br> | ||
| + | http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines: a "canonical" list of wiki engines<br> | ||
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| + | '''Advogato'''<br> | ||
| + | http://www.advogato.org: an early diary site for multiple users (mostly involved in free software) | ||
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| + | == 20 September 2007 == | ||
| + | '''Open Content, David Wiley and Jorn Barger'''<br> | ||
| + | Wikipedia indicates that the Creative Commons licenses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_commons) were preceded by the Open Publication License (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_License) developed in 1999 by David Wiley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Wiley) as part of his Open Content (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_content) initiative. | ||
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| + | On David Wiley's website (http://opencontent.org) is an article called "A Beginner's Guide to Blogs for Instructional Technologists" (http://opencontent.org/docs/begin_blog.html). Wiley states therein that the term "weblog" was invented by Jorn Barger in 1999. The article gives a link to Barger's original 1999 page (http://www.robotwisdom.com/weblogs), where Barger gives the following definition: | ||
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| + | :"A weblog is a webpage where a weblogger 'logs' all the other webpages she finds interesting." | ||
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| + | David Wiley also operates an OpenContent Wiki (http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) with a page on | ||
| + | maintaining wikis (http://opencontent.org/wiki/index.php?title=Maintaining_a_wiki), where it is stated that: | ||
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| + | :"A wiki without contributors is nothing but a blog on steroids." | ||
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| + | Other interesting pages on Wiley's site:<br> | ||
| + | A list of writings: http://opencontent.org/blog/writings<br> | ||
| + | A paper about the Open Publication License: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/329 | ||
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| + | == Prior to 20 September 2007 == | ||
| + | '''Meatspace'''<br> | ||
| + | Wikipedia defines "Meatspace" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatspace) as follows: | ||
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| + | :"Meatspace is a dysphemism for real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality." | ||
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| + | For "dysphemism" see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism. | ||
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| + | '''MeatballWiki'''<br> | ||
| + | Did the term "Meatspace" serve as the inspiration for the name of the MeatballWiki (http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?MeatballWiki)? I saw somewhere that "meatballs" were wiki communities. Another hypothesis was that since it was the first '''meta-wiki''' (a WikiOnWiki), Sunir swapped the t and the a to make it '''meat-wiki'''. | ||
