Re: [ProLinux] what is a wiki and other semantics

Author: Ted Roche

Posted: 2010-06-05 at 18:56:32

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com> wrote:

>

> If what you created is really a blog (which I have often wondered what

> is/isn't) then it is both, and that's just fine: in both of our cases,

> the wiki is the technology we used to implement something.

I think the answer to both questions is more a matter of defining the

literature of the result than it is the tools that are used to get

there: just as there are novels, novellas, poetry, free verse and

other forms of expression, I would suggest the definition might be:

Weblog: documents on the web, organized by default in reverse

chronological order, written as a single opinionated voice as a

journal

Wiki: documents on the web, organized by default into a

self-referential web, written as an impersonal, factual voice as a

reference.

YMMV, of course.

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Ted Roche

Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

http://www.tedroche.com

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