Tool specifications
In the debate whether we should blog or wiki, and thinking about how to support virtual organisations as mentioned in the last post on Making Actionable Sense, I found myself dreaming of a tool like this:
A bloki, i.e. a combination of a blog and a wiki, that is navigable and interfaced like the PersonalBrain (have a look at the nav-tool at the top of the page. I use it on my desktop), but then more styled like a SNA graph, or mindmap. Where new pages end up on the blog, where parts can be shielded from the public, where RSS-feeds are generated for actions resulting from the interaction (things to do lists), and per topic/project, as well as a blog with feed for changes to earlier postings.
UPDATE: See also David Buchan's conversation on the use of PersonalBrain and blogs with Jack Vinson
Ton, have you seen the Visuos book? It suggests something akin to what you suggest here: http://www.visuos.com/.
Well, you could maintain a wikilog/bloki and then use something like TouchGraph as a node browser. IdeaGraph was also headed this direction, though I don't know whether it ever got there (though given its general RDF nature, it probably wouldn't be hard to output a wiki node map...)
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/TouchGraph
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/IdeaGraph
Actually, there's nothing to stop you from using a Wiki as a Blog. Just use dates for page names, and add to an index based on category, and you can have a node-like structure done via CGI that links to everything you want... which is sort of what Honeywell's DOME software does, only on a web-level.
Posted by: Taran at December 7, 2003 11:26 PMHi Ton, I too am looking for tools that can exploit the growing web of knowledge in things like Blogs and Wikis - recognising all ideas linked to specific categories or topics (or loose-ends) and presenting the mind-map's graphically (I even investigated PersonalBrain but found it's no good for individual amateurs who don't run their own web-servers.
In my day job (away from Blogs, but moving that way) we are working on applications that use tamplates as sets of links / relations. (or query by type of link)
See this link and the one previous ...
http://www.psybertron.org/2003_12_01_archive.html#107089178604728664
A blogger (other than Seb and Lilia) who's looking at similar tools is Paul Kelly.
http://asweknowit.ca/cocoon/amoeba/dir/unrelated#1069841752:276282708625
http://asweknowit.ca/cocoon/amoeba/dir/cultural_evolution#1068430608:700877772177
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