Thursday, April 11, 2002

Argh! Just spent 3 hours with a journalist from the Volkskrant about 'media' and stuff. It was fun to speak in my honest weblogging voice, fun when you have lots to tell and nothing to hide, like when I was in the TV business. Out to get some fresh air now... [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] The Dutch language drives me nuts. I look at something written in Dutch (or Flemish) and think "I ought to be able to read that." It feels like it is right at the tip of my tongue but I just don't quite get it. If only. 'Watersnood' is such a great word, I just don't know what it means. Except that it probably has something to do with water. 10:17:49 PM

Wiki/weblog integration points. Tony Bowden writes: Having a wiki output OPML won't work, as it requires creating structure that isn't there. Having a wiki input OPML, on the other hand, might produce much more useful results. Going the other way, RSS is a great connector. I just introduced myself to Sunir Shah the other day. I was going to suggest that MeatballWiki offer an RSS feed of its RecentChanges when I looked again and lo, it already does. Even nicer would be to include the first diff in that feed, so that somebody scanning a lot of feeds can make better choices about what to read. Heads, decks, and leads. The Wiki naming style makes for nice heads, and some items in the feed have nice decks (short descriptive tags) as well. The first diff would make a nice optional lead. 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. Here's a column from two years ago that compares Wiki and newsgroup collaboration. It ties together several of these themes. [Jon's Radio] 9:59:13 PM