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==RainDog's Blog for September 2007==
[[User:RainDog]] is creating a blog on this wiki. It will be used to track the discovery of interesting webpages. (RainDog has just realised that a website can serve as a personal computer to which one can connect from anywhere.)

This blog runs on RainDog's user pages. The present sub-page is the blog for September 2007 (thus the name "Blog2007-09").

The unusual presentation of the links is deliberate: the title is followed by the full address in parentheses in order to show a maximum of information.

==26 September 2007==
Wikipedia user [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tazmaniacs Tazmaniacs] squatted my paragraph about Illich's Tools for Conviviality. He inserted right into the middle of it this non-sequitur sentence:<br>
:A resume of it was published by André Gorz in Les Temps Modernes. 
And that led me through the Gorz article to the French website of the Greens of Hauts-de-Seine. Tazmaniacs might even be someone I know...


Discovered on C2 wiki the idea of ThreadMess. Came naturally myself to WikiMess, which I Googled, coming up with:<br>
http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WikiMess<br>

Which is a page on what looks like a pretty interesting wiki:
http://ferret.bemidjistate.edu/~morgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?Entry_Point

Exploring the diverse Wiki Communities, such as Community Wiki, CraoWiki and other. And the concept of WikiNodes (did that come before or after the BusTour?).

Add now the concept of WikiConcept.

And what is a Wiki Spike?

==24 September 2007==
Wikipedia has an article about the list of biggest wikis (but the list itself is on the meta-wiki site:<br>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_largest_wikis


'''From CommunityWiki to CraoWiki via MeatballWiki and Fractal:'''<br>

''CommunityWiki:''<br>
http://www.communitywiki.org/en<br>

''WikiNodes:''<br>
CommunityWiki http://www.communitywiki.org/en/WikiNode<br>
MeatballWiki http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiNode<br>
WikiWikiWeb http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiNode<br>
Fractal http://www.wikiservice.at/fractal/wikidev.cgi?WikiNode<br>
CraoWiki http://wiki.crao.net/index.php/WikiNode<br>
WikiNode http://wikinodes.wiki.taoriver.net/moin.cgi/WikiNode<br>
WikiWiki http://wikis.wikia.com/wiki/WikiNode

''CraoWiki Mousse:''<br>
http://wiki.crao.net/index.php/MousseParis

''Virtual Object Systems Wiki:''<br>
http://interreality.org/wiki

==23 September 2007==
Spent the last couple of days researching [[MeatballWiki]] and [[Sunir Shah]] for my contributions to the corresponding Wikipedia articles (I created [[:Category:Working Pages|Working Pages]] on these topics).

On Wikipedia I transformed the MeatballWiki article from a stub to a regular article, and created the Sunir Shah article (from a redirect). Since Sunir should have had an article long ago, I surmise internal Wikipedian resistance to this article. I am waiting for the s**t to hit the fan. But maybe 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.


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:

http://technorati.com/pop/blogs

From a first selection my favorite is:

http://lifehacker.com

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]].)

== 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>

'''Advogato'''<br>
http://www.advogato.org: an early diary site for multiple users (mostly involved in free software)

== 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.

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:

:"A weblog is a webpage where a weblogger 'logs' all the other webpages she finds interesting."

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:

:"A wiki without contributors is nothing but a blog on steroids."

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  

== Prior to 20 September 2007 ==
'''Meatspace'''<br>
Wikipedia defines "Meatspace" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatspace) as follows:

:"Meatspace is a dysphemism for real life or the physical world, and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality."

For "dysphemism" see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphemism.

'''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'''.

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatball_Wiki), MeatballWiki is a wiki dedicated to online communities and culture, which has become the launching point for various wiki-based projects and a central resource for the wider wiki community:

* MeatballWiki hosts a project journal concerning design of UseModWiki, the wiki program developed by Clifford Adams and used by MeatballWiki.
* MeatballWiki promoted the key concept of "barn raising": Sunir Shah created the first internet barnstar award there.
* MeatballWiki is a sister company of WikiWikiWeb, the first Wiki to be created.

See also the page on this wiki that discusses the [[MeatballWiki]].

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