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Weblogs, Wikis and RSS Together: A Basic Recipe
By leelefever on February 12, 2004 - 10:15am
At the recent Tech-Muck, I got my first real experience using a wiki, thanks to SocialText. I’ve been tuned-in for a while, but this was the first time I experienced a wiki in practice. (A “wiki†is a group of related web pages that are very easy to edit/update and used by multiple people at once).
This experience (and Ross' post) prompted me to think about where/how a wiki fits into my other favorite technologies, RSS and Weblogs. During a morning dog-walk today, I came to the basic conclusions below.
Here is a quick and dirty recipe for using these new tools in a project group situation:
- Weblogs are used by individuals in the group to propose and discuss new ideas and concepts.
- Wikis are used to take the ideas from the individual weblogs, refine them as a group and develop them into deliverables.
- RSS plays the essential role of keeping the group up-to-date on new weblog posts and changes to the wiki.
I think using these technologies together could represent a new and effective way to allow groups to move more quickly from ideas to deliverables. What do you think?
Weblogs, Wikis and RSS Together: A Basic Recipe
I agree. Weblogs are fundamentally date-based diaries and wikis allow the accumulation of knowledge. I am going to try a little experiment of teaching myself the electronic design language Verilog on-line. I am going to use the weblog as the basic vehicle to drive the study along and wikis as the way of recording the static information. Ideally, I would like Typepad to provide a kind of wiki 'scratch' space along with the blog. Then I would have a place to put 'coursework' that others would not expect to find on a public wiki like wikipedia.