January 05, 2007
Socialtext Related Blogging
I've started doing my daily work blogging in public over at the Socialtext Open Wiki. This probably means that most of my socialtext, wiki, and collaboration related thought will end up over there. So if you're here for that sort of thing you might want to subscribe to that weblog's feed. (Q5Z)
It lacks, tragically, PurpleNumbers but maybe that will motivate me. I wrote Purple for Kwiki so Purple for Socialtext is not far off. Making it optional in shared spaces may be a bit of a shoot, but things are possible. (Q60)
I am, obviously, back from Antarctica. The trip was great. Details and photos to come, I'll link from here. (Q61)
April 05, 2006
Miki: Your Naked Wiki
It feels appropriate that on CSS Naked Day Socialtext has announced Miki a sort of naked (no css) wiki that works on mobile devices. Compare and contrast. (Q2N)
Miki rides on top of a collection of code that is trying extra specially hard to incorporate some less code ethos into itself. We've collapsed class hierarchies, separated areas of concern, made some cooler uris, generated some idioms and removed stuff without a good answer to "why are you here?" (Q2P)
In his announcment Ross describes a personal miki: (Q2Q)
Socialtext Personal, which is free for five users, gives you a private wiki as notepad in your pocket. Simply bookmark your miki in your mobile web browser to quickly take notes that you can access and edit anywhere. A workgroup of five, for example, could have one common wiki and five private personal wikis, all for free. (Q2R)
This is where I've been headed for a long time (see Why Wiki). A wiki in any form can provide an individual or group with a start at an outboard brain of reusable info. A wiki with multiple modalities of use makes that brain better. (Q2S)
Miki, finally, was a blast to write. Most coding fun I've had in a long time. It's a clear simple tool designed to do a small number of things in a light way. (Q2T)
