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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'''
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Ward Cunningham's original C2 wiki has a page about ThreadMess. This brought to mind WikiMess, which I Googled, coming up with:<br>
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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:
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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 ==
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'''Ward Cunningham and the Wiki Wiki Web'''<br>
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http://c2.com: the website of Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki concept.<br>
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors: this part of c2.com is Ward's original wiki, the Wiki Wiki Web.<br>
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory: an article about the history of wiki.<br>
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines: a "canonical" list of wiki engines<br>
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'''Advogato'''<br>
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http://www.advogato.org: an early diary site for multiple users (mostly involved in free software)
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== 20 September 2007 ==
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'''Open Content, David Wiley and Jorn Barger'''<br>
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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
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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>
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A list of writings: http://opencontent.org/blog/writings<br>
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A paper about the Open Publication License: http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/329 
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== Prior to 20 September 2007 ==
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'''Meatspace'''<br>
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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>
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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'''.

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