I have a number of blog posts I want to make. About Jabber, about Edinburgh, about wikis, about Venus. I’ve just read this story Shadow lamps to connect friends on the BBC and I absolutely love it. How could we do something similar at home? Off the top of my head: ...

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There is an International Symposium on Wikis. Its “Welcome” page is a PDF.

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One of my colleagues, Marieke Guy, has just written a puntastically-titled article entitled Wiki or Won’t He? A Tale of Public Sector Wikis in the UKOLN online periodical Ari...

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Google has acquired JotSpot (coverage also on the Google Blog) I’ve been evaluating wikis for rollout at work for a good while now, and the overwhelming impression I came away with was one of disappointment. Almost all of the hosted wikis are very poor indeed. You see the ed...

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Initial wiki comparison table. Some notes: Can’t be Windows-platform, otherwise technology-neutral Er, some other things. [JSPWiki](http://jspwiki.org/)[MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki)[Confluence](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/)[JotSpot](http://www.jot...

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Anthony just asked a great question in one of my recent blog posts, and I thought my hasty answer was worth making into its own post (given that I’ll soon be giving my second talk...

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I’ll be delivering a talk on Evaluating Wikis: A Case Study at the Exploiting The Potential Of Wikis workshop put on by UKOLN on Friday 3rd November 2006 where I’ll be giving a r...

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I gave two seminar talks at IWMW 2006, “Sharing and Exploring Team Knowledge with Wikis” and “Exposing yourself on the web with microformats!” (slides for both to come). These were my first time doing any kind of public speaking since I left school, so I mana...

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I really really wanted to go to @Media 2006 (15th-16th June, upcoming), having missed it last year, but I’ve been asked to talk at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006 (14th-...

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You know, it’s interesting that Jon Udell should talk about adding tags to wiki pages for categorisation when just a few days before his post Gareth and I were talking about exactly the same thing. The problem with the existing systems, and the examples Jon quotes is that you not only need...

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