Bliki info
August, 2006 | Full entry
Eeva Melvasalo has sent me a list of online resources about blikis, which I have posted here.
Eeva Melvasalo has sent me a list of online resources about blikis, which I have posted here.
I have now got a framework for this site up and running. The logic traps appear to be sorted out. Wikkawiki is working well.
I have got the feeds to work at last, and have placed them in the sidebar where they should logically be. Here is a brief description of what I did, and a few code snippets to help remind me later.
Some preliminary thoughts on combining the functionality of blogs and wikis, that attempts to look the question “why would you do it?” in the eyes without blinking.
A list of all the files that were altered in the default WikkaWiki to make the wiki version of this site.
A list of all the files that were altered in the default WordPress installation to make the current version of this site. This page will be updated as necessary, which will hopefully not be very often.
A reminder of the various changes made to the default wikkawiki installation in order to achieve the effect you can see here, although this is now rendered in WordPress.
This morning I attempted to put this site online at a GoDaddy address. It all worked perfectly, except for the parts that didn’t.
I looked at Netvibes again, and found it interesting, and potentially very useful.
Eeva Melvasalo sent me a list of online resources about blikis, including definitions, discussions and examples.
Aki shows me FeedYes and I am interested. As a result of this the RSS here almost begins to work.
Sometime after the sauna last night I found myself thinking about the navigation system that I had cheerfully announced yesterday as finished. And suddenly it seemed obvious that it was very, very wrong. Working out why it was wrong, though, was not easy.
I looked at the TikiWiki documentation yesterday and realised that I had been right to stay with WikkaWiki! Not that there was anything wrong with TikiWiki. Indeed it looks like a magnificient piece of software.
Wired online has an article about wikis that is itself created as a wiki. This is not the most interesting thing about it though.
Yesterday I alerted everyone on who reads the WE in e-pedagogy∞ blog to the fact that this site was (finally) online. Ralf∞ responded almost immediately, asking where the trackback features were. This made me remember something interesting, so I went off to track it down.
The process of constructing this bliki, or knowledge-base, or whatever I am calling it this week, is both frustrating and illuminating. As I have explained elsewhere this is deliberate, and I was reminded of why I am doing it this way when I reread an old article about Jeff Hawkins that talks about his famous wooden blocks.
It has taken me a lot longer than I planned to get a version of my personal infohub thingy online in a version powered by WordPress. This is not because WordPress is difficult to work with, but rather the opposite. There are so many plug-ins and options that I have been some time deciding what paths would be best to walk down.