A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

This isn’t a problem. It’s the solution. Politicians who try to spin their wikipedia entry are getting named and shamed.

Latest news copied from the ShowStoppers page I’m still thinking, more and more seriously, about rewriting at least the wiki-to-html engine in Python. I’m also seriously thinking that the next release will actually be a complementary “web-server” edition, which allows you to edit pages via a browser (over the web) rather than through the VB…

The Fishbowl: In Defense of Wiki Markup

David Weinberger has an excellent piece on wikipedia. JOHO – December 29, 2005

OK, some more thinking out-loud about possible futures for SdiDesk in light of that TurboGears demo. Nothing is fixed. Particularly not SdiDesk. This is all speculative. What is SdiDesk? Idea? A prototype? A useful tool? A code-base? A finger-post pointing out the direction I’d like to see individualistic knowledge tools evolve? All of the above.…

Wow! I just saw the TurboGears: 20 Minute Wiki Tutorial and I must say, I’m impressed. Lion Kimbro doesn’t like TG so there’s a warning there. But I must say, it’s the first Python demo I’ve seen which comes close to the infamous Rails video.

Chandler 0.6 is out Chandler seems to have been coming along fairly slowly for a while. I’m not sure how exciting this is but could be the beginning of something interesting. The Chandler team have been building up some Python infrastructure, grappled with various technologies, and rejected the ones which have turned out to be…

Good post from Ian Bicking on Agile Content Development

Bill Seitz rounds up opinions on the horrors of Group Ware.

Structured blogging–what’s in it for users? Well, trying to make ordinary users add more structure to a blog entry is a non-starter. The way to go is to find people who are already entering structured data, and allow them to do it to their blogs. The clue here is spreadsheets. Dan Bricklin is on the…