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BLOGS – RSS – WIKIS
Compiled by David Mattison, MLS (http://members.shaw.ca/dmattison) for a presentation to the Government Librarians Association of BC and Special Librarians Association, 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, BC, May 21, 2003
Notable Quote: “Integrating blogs and wikis is a hot item right now.” Ward Cunningham, inventor of the WikiWiki Web, quoted in “What’s a Wiki?”, Sebastian Rupley, PC Magazine, May 9, 2003, http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1071705,00.asp
Notable Site: Portals, Blogs, & RSS: Why They Are Your Future by Jenny (TheShiftedLibrarian.com) Levine, September 9, 2002 http://www.sls.lib.il.us/infotech/presentations/blogging/index.htm
Blogs
Peter Scott, who works at the University of Saskatchewan Library and as a consultant for Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd. (http://www.lights.com), offers the following useful sites:
Library Blogs
Peter Scott’s list, while comprehensive, does not provide much information about the individual blogs. Here are some of the more important ones:
- beSpacific by Sabrina I. Pacifici: http://www.bespacific.com (a blog on legal issues, libraries, and technology by a veteran law librarian and the founder of LLRX.com)
- The Blog Driver’s Waltz by Geoffrey (Geoff) Harder: http://www.blogdriverswaltz.com (Canajun, eh; news, opinions, and a good blogroll or collection of links to other blogs)
- Catalogablog by David Bigwood: http://catalogablog.blogspot.com (all about cataloguing and other kinds of descriptive systems, with links to standards and MARC resources)
- Extranet: Where Librarians and Technology Meet by St. Albert Public Library (Alberta): http://extra.sapl.ab.ca (portal/blog “… created to further St. Albert Public Library's vision and mission by creating synergy between Librarians and Information Technology Specialists.”)
- Ferret Newsletter: Web Sites of Interest to Utah State Agencies: http://kelsorat.com/weblogs/ferret/index.html (compiled by the Utah State Library, the site is mirrored in conventional Web format on the library’s own site at http://library.utah.gov/newsletter.html)
- Liblog by Redwood City Public Library (California): http://www.rcpl.info/services/liblog.html (integrated with the library’s own site, “a weblog of current web sites and stories dealing with the interface between technology and libraries.”)
- Library Stuff by Steven M. Cohen: http://www.librarystuff.net (“The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development”)
- LISNews.com by Blake Carver and others: http://lisnews.com (general news and opinions about the library world)
- oss4lib: Open Source Systems for Libraries: http://www.oss4lib.org (news and opinions about open source, not necessarily free, software for library management activities)
- Research Buzz by Tara Calishain: http://www.researchbuzz.com (Internet/Web resource descriptions, opinions by the co-author of Google Hacks [O’Reilly, 2003])
- The ResourceShelf by Gary Price: http://resourceshelf.freepint.com (Internet/Web resource descriptions, interviews, opinions)
- The Shifted Librarian by Jenny Levine: http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com (ideas, opinions, and a terrific blogroll)
- SiteLines: Ideas About Web Searching by Rita Vine: http://www.workingfaster.com/sitelines/ (“The purpose of SiteLines is to help web searchers stay up to date on key search tools and developments.”)
- usr/lib/info: http://usrlib.info (“a collective weblog, used by a motley cabal of hacker/librarians who like chatting about how they go about solving the many problems facing them from day to day, and long-term.”)
Blog Tracking Sites
Antville.org: http://www.antville.org (Antville is also “an open source project aimed to the development of an "easy to maintain and use" weblog hosting system.”)
Blogarama, the Blog Directory: http://www.blogarama.com
Blogdex, the Weblog Diffusion Index: http://blogdex.net
blogLinker.com: http://www.bloglinker.com (similar to Blogrolling.com)
BlogNews: http://www.blognews.it (Italian language directory with blog lists by name, category, and date)
Blogrolling.com: http://www.blogrolling.com (similar to blogLinker.com)
Blo.gs: http://blo.gs (largest number of blogs, with over 225,000 weblogs tracked as of May 16, 2003)
BlogStreet: http://www.blogstreet.com (as of May 16, 2003, 136,092 blogs tracked here, with a potential of 314,757 blogs. Among the useful and unusual tools are the Visual Neighborhood, a Java applet, the RSS Directory; as of May 16, 2003, there are 11,377 feeds; and the Top Books on a weekly basis mentioned in blogs)
BlogTree.com: http://www.blogtree.com
BlogWise: http://www.blogwise.com
Eatonweb Portal: http://portal.eatonweb.com (one of the first blog tracking sites)
GeoURL: http://geourl.org (built by Joshua Schachter so you can find out who’s blogging in a neighbourhood near you or next door – if they’re honest!)
Popdex, the Website Popularity Index: http://www.popdex.com
Technorati: http://www.technorati.com
Weblogs.com: http://www.weblogs.com (Userland Software’s service)
(we)blogcheckup: http://weblogcheckup.de (German site)
Some Community Blog Sites
Blogalization: http://www.blogalization.org (multilingual blog site powered by pMachine)
Ecademy: Connecting Business People: http://www.ecademy.com (powered by Drupal)
Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org (powered by Scoop)
MetaFilter: http://www.metafilter.com (hidden away behind the scenes is the MetaFilter Wiki -- http://mssv.net/wiki.cgi?Home; powered by MetaFilter)
MetaPop: http://meta.popdex.com (founded by Popdex, MetaPop uses the free, open source MetaPhilter software [http://www.metaphilter.org], a PHP-based community weblogging application modelled on MetaFilter)
Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org (to be “slashdotted” is not, they say, a good thing; powered by Slash)
Fun Blogs and Fun Stuff with Blogs
Audblogging via Harold Gilchrist’s Audioblog/Mobileblogging News: http://radio.weblogs.com/0100368/ (see also Moblogging)
Blogplates: Weblog Templates Webring: http://blogplates.net (focus is on Blogger, Greymatter, Movable Type, and pMachine blog authoring/publishing systems)
Blogshares: http://www.blogshares.com
Boing Boing, A Directory of Wonderful Things: http://boingboing.net (co-edited by Cory Doctorow, Mark Frauenfelder, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin)
Moblogging via Howard Rheingold’s Smart Mobs: http://www.smartmobs.com (mobile blogging as exemplified by Howard Rheingold’s book and blog of the same name; see also Joi Ito’s Moblogging, Blogmapping and Moblogmapping related resources as of 4/29/2003 @ http://radio.weblogs.com/0114939/outlines/moblog.html, and Audblogging)
Vlogs: via Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine: http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2002_12.html#000489 (video weblogs; challenge your bandwidth with this somewhat new blogging development)
Thoughtful Blogs
Boxes and Arrows: Because We Can: http://www.boxesandarrows.com (a blogzine on information architecture)
eBN: Educational Bloggers Network: http://www.bayareawritingproject.org/eBN (project of the Bay Area Writing Project to promote the use of weblogs in education; members are from around the world)
Gleanings: Elegant Hack Blog: http://www.eleganthack.com/blog (on information architecture)
University of Wisconsin, Internet Scout Project, Internet Scout Weblog: http://scout.wisc.edu/weblog/ (the Internet Scout Project, started in 1994, represents one of the earliest, authoritative services for Web resource discovery through its publications and now its Weblog)
Brian Lamb, Object Learning: http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/ (he works at UBC; see also LOS @ UBC, another blog, http://www.learningobjects.ubc.ca)
Sebastian Fiedler, Seblogging: Weblogs, CMS, and Dynamic Webpublishing for Learning and Education: http://seblogging.cognitivearchitects.com
Weblogg-ed: Using Weblogs in Education: http://www.weblogg-ed.com (lots of links here to the business case for and best practices blogs in education, blog software, journalism blogs, and RSS resources)
Blogs-Wiki Crossovers & Blogs-With-Wikis
Blogalization.org’s Blogalization Conspiracy Wiki: http://www.blogalization.info/conspiracy/BlogalizationConspiracy (this wiki made its appearance on May 11, 2003)
Jon Lebkowsky’sWeblogsky: http://www.weblogsky.com (note the “wiki” link at the end of each post)
MetaFilter Wiki: http://mssv.net/wiki.cgi?Home
Les Orchard, Decafbad.com: http://www.decafbad.com/blog/ (this is the blog and note the prominent Wiki link which takes you to a Twiki site; Orchard appears to be working on many interesting wikiblog projects)
Blog Authoring/Publishing Software (A Very Short List)
Blogs and wikis are content-oriented, meaning a lot of text, relatively few graphics, innovative navigational elements, and usually some degree of collaborative editing capability. Vendors of content management systems (CMS) today market their products as suitable for blogs. What really distinguishes blogs and wikis is the chronological element to the former and the free-form, instant cross-linking capability aspect of the latter. Even Userland Software’s Manila CMS, which you can enable for registered users to edit any content, is organized along chronological lines, so I would consider it blogging software.
blosxom: http://www.raelity.org/apps/blosxom/ (created by Rael Dornfest, one of the authors of Essential Blogging, Blosxom "(pronounced Blossom) is a lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability in mind." Blosxom is a CGI script that requires a Perl installation, which means it will pretty well run on any platform that supports Perl. Blosxom supports RSS syndication, and, through a separate project, Blagg, RSS aggregation or reading.)
Drupal: http://drupal.org (used by Ecademy.com)
Manila (Userland Software): http://manila.userland.com (robust groupware used by the Blogue.com hosting service)
Movable Type: http://movabletype.org (donorware for non-commercial and/or business use from Six Apart, a two-person company owned by Ben and Mena Trott; see also TypePad.com, their new hosting service)
NewzCrawler: http://www.newzcrawler (RSS/NNTP/Web news tool that incorporates a blog editor; posting capability to Blogger, Radio, and Movable Type, among others)
pMachine: http://www.pmachine.com (used by the Blogalization community blog)
Radio Userland: http://radio.userland.com (Windows/Macintosh desktop client, single PC only recommended; Userland Software)
Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org (used by Kuro5hin)
Slash: http://www.slashcode.org (used by Slashdot)
w.bloggar: http://wbloggar.com (external client; can blog to Blogger, Radio, and Movable Type, among others)
Zope + Plone: http://www.zope.org and http://www.plone.org (multiplatform Zope, which requires the programming language Python, includes a Content Management Framework [CMF] for portal construction and content syndication, one of whose objects is the CMFWiki. Plone is a frontend or content management system for Zope. Everything in Zope is stored in Zope’s built-in or an external database application such as MySQL. Zope.org also uses wikis extensively -- http://www.zope.org/Wikis/FrontPage. Plone is not your average blogging software, its main use is as a content management system and Plone has some very heavy duty customers, including NATO, the Austrian Government, two U.S. governors, CBS New York, and Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, part of the BC Cancer Agency in Vancouver)
Blog Hosting Services
Big Blog Tool (subscription): http://www.bigblogtool.com (offers a Windows blogging client, similar to w.bloggar
BlogSpot.com (free): http://www.blogspot.com (this is the service offered by Blogger.com)
Blogue.com (free): http://www.blogue.com (Manila-based blogging service; see my sample HawaiianI @ http://www.blogue.com/hawaiiani)
Bloki.com: http://www.bloki.com (free individual or community blog hosting service that also lets individuals collaborate on individual pages or shared sites a la wiki. The default blog page is at !http://blokiname.bloki.com/blog)
CrimsonBlog.com (free): http://www.crimsonblog.com
Pitas.com (free): http://www.pitas.com
TypePad.com (subscription): http://www.typepad.com (“personal publishing system” offered by the company that developed the Movable Type software; TypePad combines a Web based, including wi-fi [wireless fiderlity] support, authoring system with a publishing utility; not operational as of May 11, 2003)
Blogs Background Readings
Brian Aker, Running Weblogs with Slash (O’Reilly, 2002). Partially online at O’Reilly Network’s Safari Bookshelf (http://safari.oreilly.com).
Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog (Perseus Publishing, 2002).
Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, “Blogging Goes Corporate”, Wireless NewsFactor, March 12, 2003: http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/20975.html (“Technology research firm Gartner also has begun to dabble in Weblogs. French Caldwell, vice president and research director at the firm, said Gartner's "Emerging Storm" [http://weblog.gartner.com/weblog/index.php] Weblog is "an experiment." However, he added, the company "sees a lot of future in blogs." Note: As of May 10, 2003, this Gartner Weblog is called “Conflict in Iraq: Key Issues for Business and IT”)
Cory Doctorow and others, Essential Blogging (O’Reilly, 2002). Partially online at O’Reilly Network’s Safari Bookshelf (http://safari.oreilly.com).
Andrew Grumet, “Deep Thinking About Weblogs,” Andrew Grumet’s Weblog, May 12, 2003, http://grumet.net/writing/web/deep-thinking-about-weblogs.html
Ray Tiernan, “Why Blogs Haven't Stormed the Business World”, Wireless NewsFactor, April 29, 2003: http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/21389.html
RSS (And a Little Bit of RDF and the Semantic Web)
Definition: The Semantic Web is the representation of data on the World Wide Web. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF), which integrates a variety of applications using XML for syntax and URIs for naming. (Semantic Web Activity, World Wide Web Consortium, http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
RSS began life as a Netscape technology. The official name for RSS, according to the World Wide Web Consortium, is RDF Site Summary. You don’t need to understand RDF (Resource Description Framework; http://www.w3.org/RDF/) to work with RSS. There are two versions of RSS, the official one, currently at 1.0 (http://purl.org/rss/1.0/), and Userland Software’s RSS 2.0 (http://backend.userland.com/rss), which Dave Winer, who led its development, calls Really Simple Syndication. A proposed module released on May 7, 2003 to RSS 2.0 that bridges the gulf between RSS 1.0 and 2.0 is the Simple Semantic Resolution (SSR) Module (http://ideagraph.net/xmlns/ssr/): “The purpose of SSR is to provide a mechanism by which the semantics of an RSS 2.0 document can be unambiguously resolved to an RDF model.” Radio Userland and other blogging software users will also be interested in the ability to add topics on the fly as a way of creating a keyword, cross-referenced index to their Radio weblog. See liveTopics (http://www.novissio.com/products/liveTopics/liveTopics.html) and activeRenderer (http://activerenderer.com and http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/aR/activeRenderer.html for a live example) for details on the Radio Userland requirements. liveTopics is based on a proposed specification called Easy News Topics (ENT, http://www.purl.org/NET/ENT/1.0/), which is based on XFML (Exchangeable Faceted Metadata Language, http://xfml.org). A local developer, Doug Ransom, is also working on a specification to embed RSS into XHTML (http://ransom.dyndns.ws/doug/hts/hts.html). For further information and tools on RDF see Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide (http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/)
RSS Readers (Aggregators) (A Short List of Standalone Clients or Web Browser Readers)
RSS Feed Reader / News Aggregators Directory: http://www.hebig.org/blogs/archives/main/000877.php (see also the Google Directory entry for RSS News Readers by searching http://directory.google.com)
Aggie: http://bitworking.org/Aggie.html (Windows .NET)
AmphetaDesk: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk (Mac, Windows and Linux source)
Awasu: http://www.awasu.com (Windows)
BottomFeeder: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder (Smalltalk – very cross-platform; Smalltalk is the same language used to create the Swiki application)
Fetch: http://www.enterpriserss.com/ (Windows “enterprise”-strength RSS reader and syndication system)
HotSheet: http://www.johnmunsch.com/projects/HotSheet/ (Java)
NewsDesk: http://www.wildgrape.net (Windows .NET)
NewsGator: http://www.newsgator.com (for Windows and Microsoft Outlook; no blogging capability as of version 1.1; product has huge market potential)
NewzCrawler: http://www.newzcrawler.com (Windows standalone app that includes an RSS and NNTP news reader, Web browser, RSS news editor, RSS auto-discovery, e-mail agent, and blogging client).
SlashDock: http://homepage.mac.com/stas/slashdock.html (Mac)
Straw: http://www.nongnu.org/straw/ (for the GNOME desktop environment)
Syndirella: http://www.yole.ru/projects/syndirella/ (Windows .NET desktop reader)
RSS Directories, Lists, Search Engines, and Search Tools
BlogDigger: http://www.blogdigger.com (one of the newest blog/RSS search engines by Greg Gershman)
Daypop: http://www.daypop.com (likely the first and most famous RSS/blog search engine)
Feedster: http://feedster.com (formerly Roogle)
LISFeeds (via LISNews.com): http://www.lisnews.com/LISFeeds.php (library-related RSS feeds)
myRSS.com: http://myrss.com ("enables anyone to build custom RSS channels ….”; basically a database like Syndic8.com with options to create an RSS feed for any Web site, as well as subscribe to channels or RSS feeds through RSS aggregators or readers such as Radio, AmphetaDesk, Fyuze, NewsDesk, NNTP/RSS, Opera, or Netscape)
NewsIsFree.com: http://www.newsisfree.com
rssSearch: http://www.rss-search.com
Surfarama: http://www.surfarama.com (Internet Explorer toolbar that searches Daypop)
Syndic8.com: http://www.syndic8.com (a user-maintained database of RSS sources; includes content from the feeds as part of the database record)
Technorati: http://www.technorati.com (allows you to set up, for a fee, a “watchlist” of sites ranked by Google or RSS feed; at $10/year per RSS feed, an expensive option)
RSS Syndication Services
These are services that collate RSS feeds and offer them for free – since most RSS feeds today come from bloggers they are already free – or by subscription. You can use these services or the various directories and search engines/tools to locate feeds. A specification for content syndication called Open Content Syndication (OCS; http://internetalchemy.org/ocs/) was developed by Ian Davis and is used by services such as Moreover.com
Moreover.com: http://www.moreover.com
NewsIsFree.com: http://www.newsisfree.com
RSSxpress: http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/ (for UK RSS channels – an RSS editor and directory – click on “edit” on any of the existing links to see how RSS is formed)
RSS Web-Based News Sites (Short List)
Meerkat, an Open Wire Service (O’Reilly Network): http://www.oreillynet.com/meerkat (chiefly IT news, but also RSS feeds from some interesting blogs)
NewsIsFree.com: http://www.newsisfree.com
Syndic8.com: http://www.syndic8.com
RDF and RSS Tools
For a large number of RDF tools and projects, see Dave Beckett's Resource Description Framework (RDF) Resource Guide (http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/)
FOAF: the “Friend of a Friend” Vocabulary: originally proposed by Ian Davis, for further information see RDFWeb and FOAF (http://rdfweb.org/foaf), FOAFnaut (http://foafnaut.org/), FOAF Project Wiki (http://rdfweb.org/topic/FoafProject), and FOAF-a-matic by Leigh Dodds (http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic.html)
NewzCrawler: http://www.newzcrawler.com (versatile Swiss Army knife tool for RSS work – a reader and syndicator, as well as a blogging tool)
RDF Validation Service: http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ (a service of the World Wide Web Consortium).
RSS Channel Editor: http://www.webreference.com/cgi-bin/perl/rssedit.pl (Web-based RSS editor by Jonathan Eisenzopf)
RSS Validator (Mark Pilgrim and Sam Ruby): http://feeds.archive.org/validator/ (validates RSS 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, and 2.0; source code can be downloaded)
RSS Validator (Userland Software): http://aggregator.userland.com/validator (not tested, but likely only validates RSS 2.0, the Userland version)
RSSify: http://www.voidstar.com/rssify.php (an RSS Web-based editor created by Julian Bond)
RSSxpress Lite: RSS Channel Presentation and Searching: http://rssxpress.ukoln.ac.uk/lite/include/ (“RSSxpress Lite is a simple way of placing an RSS channel onto your own websites using a single line of JavaScript. … This service enables you specify the RSS channel you want to add to your site and will then create the JavaScript required for you to cut and paste to your own pages.”)
RSS Background Readings
Steven M. Cohen, "RSS For Non-Techie Librarians," LLRX.com, June 3, 2002, http://www.llrx.com/features/rssforlibrarians.htm
Stephen Downes, “An Introduction to RSS for Educational Designers,” Downes.ca, http://www.downes.ca/files/RSS_Educ.doc (Microsoft Word; the author works for the National Research Council of Canada’s Institute for Information Technology E-Learning Group in Moncton)
Michael Fagan, "Explanation of RSS, How You Can Use It, and Finding RSS Feeds," Fagan Finder, http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml
Ben Hammersley, Content Syndication with RSS (O’Reilly, 2003). Partially online at O’Reilly Network’s Safari Bookshelf (http://safari.oreilly.com); see in particular Appendix B under Validators, and Desktop Readers.
Ray Matthews, Utah State Library Division, “RSS Workshop: Publish and Syndicate Your News to the Web,” GILS: Government Information Locator Service, http://gils.utah.gov/rss/
Doug Ransom, "Connecting Interested People to New Web Content With Syndication and Aggregation", presentation for WEAV BC, April 16, 2003: http://www.weav.bc.ca/slides/weav.rss_files/v3_document.htm
Danny Sullivan, “Making an RSS Feed,” SearchEngineWatch.com, April 2, 2003: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175271
Danny Sullivan, “RSS: Your Gateway To News & Blog Content,” SearchEngineWatch.com, April 2, 2003: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2175281
Roy Tennant, "Feed Your Head: Keeping Up by Using RSS," Library Journal, May 15, 2003, http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=articlePrint&;articleID=CA296443&publication=libraryjournal
XMLhack.com (http://xmlhack.com/) offers current news for XML and Semantic Web developers.
Wikis
You cannot explain wiki, you can only experience wiki.
Because wikis are best appreciated live, here are a number of sites you can try. One unusual aspect of wikis is that the wiki software sites themselves are often open and permit visitors to create their own pages. This is also true for some of the blog or content management system sites such as Drupal and Scoop/Kuro5hin. Because wikis come with their own language and culture, it’s considered good practice, as with a mailing list, to lurk around for a while, get the lay of the wiki, before diving in. In many wikis, anyone can delete content, but through versioning control and rollback capability, such vandalism is easily countered by a wiki’s community of users.
What’s A Wiki: http://wikiweb.com/intro1.shtml (WikiWeb Inc.’s presentation)
WikiWiki Web or Ward’s Wiki, also known as the Portland Pattern Repository: http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki (opened in March 1995, this is the first wiki developed by Ward Cunningham, a proponent of Extreme Programming [XP])
Community and General Wikis
Joi Ito Wiki: http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/ (example of a personal wiki being used as a community sounding board by and around Japan’s Joi Ito, the owner of Neoteny Co., Ltd., one of the investors in Ben and Mena Trott’s company Six Apart, makers of Movable Type and the new TypePad Web hosting service)
Meatball Wiki:http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl (powered by UseMod)
Memes.net: http://www.memes.net (powered by Lucid Fried Eggs ?)
Minciu Sodas: http://www.ms.lt
Educational and Reference Wikis
KmWiki: http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki or http://www.voght.com/cgi-bin/pywiki?KmWiki (Denham Grey’s site, powered by PyWiki)
PlanetMath.org: http://planetmath.org (powered by Noosphere)
2Cool CoWeb: http://herring.cc.gatech.edu:8080/2cool (Georgia Institute of Technology architecture class wiki powered by ComSwiki)
Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia: http://www.wikipedia.org (Wikipedia’s Project Sourceberg is a fascinating example of how Wikipedia is evolving into the Universal Encyclopedia envisioned by many writers)
Wiktionary, the Wikipedia Dictionary: http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page
Government Wikis
State of Alaska, Department of Public Assistance, DPA Wiki: http://soar.hss.state.ak.us/tavi/index.php?page=DPAWiki
Library and Archives Wikis
EAD Wiki:http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/eadwiki/ (Archives HUB, UK; EAD is an SGML/XML Document Type Definition for describing archival records and stands for Encoded Archival Description)
National Science Digital Library Evaluation Workgroup Wiki: http://eval.comm.nsdlib.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WhatIsThis
Information Technology, Science and Technology Wikis
BC Wireless Wiki: http://bcwireless.net/moin.cgi/FrontPage (powered by MoinMoin, this is the BC node of a worldwide effort to build open, community owned and operated wireless networks; see also FreeNetworks.org, http://www.freenetworks.org/moin/index.cgi)
binarycloud Wiki: http://binarycloud.com/wiki/
Chandler Wiki: http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/WikiHome (Chandler is a PIM software project from the Open Source Applications Foundation founded by Mitchell Kapor; he has a blog too, http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/
Easy Topic Maps: http://easytopicmaps.com/ (powered by WikiTikiTavi, a PHP-based wiki engine, this site was created by Peter Van Dijck in December 2001 to share information on the ISO 13250 topic map standard and the XML specification for topic maps, XTM [XML Topic Maps, http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/])
Information Architecture Wiki: http://www.iawiki.net (offline as of May 5, 2003, but may be back by May 21)
myLibrary Wiki: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/wiki/ (powered by phpWiki, this site is part of the infrastructure for Eric Lease Morgan’s (University Libraries of Notre Dame) open source myLibrary [http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mylibrary/] and other library portal applications)
The Reengineering Wiki: http://www.program-transformation.org/re/ (powered by Twiki, this site is devoted to issues around reverse engineering and reengineering of software)
Wiki Engines (Software)
JSPWiki: http://www.jspwiki.org (Java-based by Janne Jalkanen)
MoinMoin: http://moin.sourceforge.net (German software by Jürgen Hermannbuilt with Python; used by the BC Wireless Net Wiki; the MoinMoin Wiki is at http://purl.net/wiki/moin/)
Noosphere: http://aux.planetmath.org/noosphere (from the Digital Library Research Lab at Virginia Tech and used by PlanetMath.org)
SnipSnap: http://snipsnap.org/space/start (Java-based from German developers Matthias L. Jugel and Stephan J. Schmidt)
Swiki or ComSwiki: http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/cs (built with Squeak, a multiplatform Smalltalk variant, and developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, ComSwiki comes with its own Web server, Comanche; very easy to set up and learn, and extremely robust)
Twiki: http://twiki.org (very powerful wiki software with many office-type plugins; used by Motorola and SAP)
UseMod: http://www.usemod.com (created by Clifford Adams, see the UseMod Wiki for details, http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl; used by the MeatBall Wiki)
ZWiki: http://www.zwiki.org (requires Zope [http://www.zope] and the Python programming language; very flexible text formatting and rendering options; Zope.org uses ZWiki extensively -- http://www.zope.org/Wikis/FrontPage)
Wiki Hosting Services
Bloki.com: http://www.bloki.com (free service that lets individuals collaborate on a single site or shared sites, as well as maintain an individual or a community blog. The default blog page is at !http://blokiname.bloki.com/blog)
NetUnify.com: http://www.netunify.com (from the same company that provides Swiki.net)
SeedWiki.com: http://www.seedwiki.com (provides free and commercial hosting; powered by a ColdFusion database, you can download the wiki software)
Swiki.net: http://www.swiki.net (powered by Swiki, but text formatting uses different markup than ComSwiki, the multiplatform version for individual or multiple users)
Wiki Readings
Amy Cortese, "Business Is Toying With a Web Tool," New York Times (Technology), May 19, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/19/technology/19NECO.html
Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham, The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web. (Addison-Wesley, 2001). The only book about wiki technology; Ward Cunningham invented wiki in 1994-1995.
David Mattison, “QuickiWiki, Swiki, TWiki, ZWiki and the Plone Wars: Wiki as PIM and Collaborative Content Tool”, Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, April 2003: http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr03/mattison.shtml
David Mattison, The Searchers’ Swiki, http://searchers.swiki.net (if the site is down, send me an e-mail at dmattison-AT-shaw.ca)
Sebastian Rupley, “What’s A Wiki?”, PC Magazine, May 9, 2003: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1071705,00.asp
Arie van Deursen and Eelco Visser, “The Reengineering Wiki”, Adobe PDF file: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~arie/papers/rewiki/rewiki.pdf
© 2003 David Mattison
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