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Friday Sep 06, 2002

Bliki, Wiki, Chiki, Reeky?

Comments[1] 07:45PM Sep 06, 2002 by Dave in Roller

Russell has put a weblog front end on this SimpleWeb Wiki software. SimpleWeb is the software that runs Russell's SimpleFace user interface design and usability website. I think every Wiki should have a weblog like front-end, it draws you in and helps to build the community spirit of the site. But, should every weblog have an integrated Wiki? That is a different question. I did a little googling and found that people have been discussing the weblog-wiki intersection for some time now.

John Udell writes "the model according to which Wikis federate is something that the blogging community could profitably study. Peter Thoeny explained it all to me once. Now I want to look into all that again."
Bill Seitz writes "another approach would be to make a separate Wiki node for each nugget, and the WebLog would really be the RecentChanges page..." and he indicates that he has been disucssing wikis and weblogs since September 1999.
The Wiki Weblogs page on Abbe Normal's site has a collection of Wiki Weblog links, I just added SimpleWeb.
0xDECAFBAD discusses "an interesting melding of weblog and wiki over at www.tesugen.com.
Mockerybird writes "the marriage of wiki and weblog. In my opinion, the next logical step in weblog evolution. It allows the weblog to become even more interconnected and relevant over time."

I don't agree with Russell's point that blog enties just disappear when they roll off the page. The couple blog entries in the list above are proof that entries live a long life. Google, good site search, and full-screen calendars keep those old posts alive.

Seems to me that integrating a Wiki into Roller would be pretty easy. All Roller would need are some nice macros for displaying and linking to the Wiki pages. Am I missing something here? Is there more to it than that? More importantly, would it be feature bloat or useful stuff?

Squatters

Comments[0] 07:27PM Sep 06, 2002 by Dave in General

I forgot to remove the newuser.jsp page from my Roller installation here at rollerweblogger.org and several people helped themselves to Roller accounts. Sorry guys, I removed your blogs. They were empty anyway.

Go Tomcat!

Comments[0] 07:52AM Sep 06, 2002 by Dave in Java

Cafe au Lait is reporting that Tomcat 4.1 has been released and has provided a nice summary of the new features (see below).

JMX based administration
JSP and Struts based administration web application
New Coyote HTTP/1.1 connector
New Coyote JK2 AJP 1.3 connector
Rewritten Jasper JSP page compiler
Performance and memory efficiency improvements
Enhanced manager application support for integration with
Custom Ant tasks to interact with the manager application directly from the build.xml scripts

Time to do some Roller benchmarking again.

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