Comments on: The Personal Wiki http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/ watching libraries evolve Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:22:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Marshall Kirkpatrick http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-74 Mon, 07 Feb 2005 23:12:59 -0800 http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-74 Interesting. I like the search idea. My partner and I are exploring using wikis as a schedule synching device. I'm using seedwiki right now b/c I have close to 0 programing knowlege and am intimidated by the requirements to host mediawiki. Maybe that's silly. I'd like to use it and tweak the CSS, but I don't know no PHP or Perl or whatever. Allways appreciate a good discussion of ways to use wikis. Thanks. Interesting. I like the search idea. My partner and I are exploring using wikis as a schedule synching device. I’m using seedwiki right now b/c I have close to 0 programing knowlege and am intimidated by the requirements to host mediawiki. Maybe that’s silly. I’d like to use it and tweak the CSS, but I don’t know no PHP or Perl or whatever.

Allways appreciate a good discussion of ways to use wikis. Thanks.

]]> by: William Melody http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-77 Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:04:11 -0800 http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-77 When I was shopping around, it became clear that most wiki engines are really in the development stage and not very easy to set up. MediaWiki was actually relatively simple to install, but customization is still a bit complicated. You don't have to know php or perl to work with these so long as you can google your question and figure out what's doing what. It's really more time consuming than anything else. But for a personal wiki, you don't really have to customize it too much if you have it set up so no one can see it. I'll be writing more in the near future about setting up a personal wiki since I found it very difficult to find any good information elsewhere. When I was shopping around, it became clear that most wiki engines are really in the development stage and not very easy to set up. MediaWiki was actually relatively simple to install, but customization is still a bit complicated. You don’t have to know php or perl to work with these so long as you can google your question and figure out what’s doing what. It’s really more time consuming than anything else. But for a personal wiki, you don’t really have to customize it too much if you have it set up so no one can see it.

I’ll be writing more in the near future about setting up a personal wiki since I found it very difficult to find any good information elsewhere.

]]> by: Bibliotheke » Tom Coates on the mass amateurization of everything http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-88 Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:48:46 -0800 http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-88 [...] some point they will be replaced by something else. What will that be? I recently posted <a href="http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/">about my personal wiki</a>. As more and more web apps reach maturity, I only see my use of [...] […] some point they will be replaced by something else. What will that be? I recently posted about my personal wiki. As more and more web apps reach maturity, I only see my use of […]

]]> by: Garnet Gratton http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-1315 Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:28:41 -0700 http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-1315 You're thinking exactly along the same lines as I've been lately. Yes, the wiki is primarily a collaboration tool, but I need something quick and easy to build and store web content for myself, and the personal wiki is just the thing. I agree with the other posters that wiki as a tool for "the amateurization of everything" is still developing; in fact, I don't think the concept itself is quite "out there" yet. I'm currently using seedwiki because I want to concentrate on content, not programming. However, it's not perfect, either. Interesting that you use your personal wiki for mind mapping. I use Freemind mind maps almost daily now (or CMAPS) to structure my ideas, build links, etc., and then transfer those ideas to seedwiki. It's redundant and I'd prefer a way to combine the two. Thanks for provoking my thoughts! You’re thinking exactly along the same lines as I’ve been lately. Yes, the wiki is primarily a collaboration tool, but I need something quick and easy to build and store web content for myself, and the personal wiki is just the thing. I agree with the other posters that wiki as a tool for “the amateurization of everything” is still developing; in fact, I don’t think the concept itself is quite “out there” yet.

I’m currently using seedwiki because I want to concentrate on content, not programming. However, it’s not perfect, either.

Interesting that you use your personal wiki for mind mapping. I use Freemind mind maps almost daily now (or CMAPS) to structure my ideas, build links, etc., and then transfer those ideas to seedwiki. It’s redundant and I’d prefer a way to combine the two. Thanks for provoking my thoughts!

]]> by: midnightBlue http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-1526 Mon, 02 May 2005 21:15:09 -0700 http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-1526 [...] en notice all of the cars like yours on the road I started seeing a bunch of blog entries (like this one ) mentioning the same thing. Each of us have our own twist though. I am g [...] […] en notice all of the cars like yours on the road I started seeing a bunch of blog entries (like this one ) mentioning the same thing. Each of us have our own twist though. I am g […]

]]> by: Chaim Krause http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-1535 Tue, 03 May 2005 10:23:04 -0700 http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/02/03/personal-wiki/#comment-1535 Backpackit went live today. It looks like another good hosted service for this kind of thing. http://www.backpackit.com Backpackit went live today. It looks like another good hosted service for this kind of thing.

http://www.backpackit.com

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