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I guess I knew about this before, but I never really took a good look at Ward Cunningham's WikkiWikkiWeb until recently. Wow. It's a collaborative writing space. You might start with this definition page, and make your way from there. Or maybe start here. Or maybe here. Or, really, any of these. Just keep clicking. Very nice. Even if you don't care about the topic ("an informal history of programming ideas" ) just getting a sense of how the whole thing is structured is pretty cool. So I'm impressed, but I have to say that just letting anyone modify anything on the site seems positively crazy.
Here's a Hack the Planet discussion thread that is worth looking at, at least for the great David McCusker ouija board metaphore:
Yeah, now we're all playing Internet Ouija Board, with lots of folks who want to spell out different things while pretending they are merely passive observers.Plus, this really nice response to Dave Winer's dream of the web as a "fantastic writing environment"
Yes, and that's a good dream. In fact, it's the best one I know about currently, unless I extend the concept of writing to include something more, until the final result is a fantastic dreaming environment.Fantastic dreaming environment? I'll take one of those please. Does it run on OSX?
Short, not too technical Cringely column on setting up a long range (10 kilometer) wireless 802.11b connection
Paul Ford is my hero. He's released the code that runs ftrain, and has posted a page explaining the mighty machine he has built.
Anyone who wants to work on this code with me should drop a line. What's here is an enormously slimmed down micro-version of the original 9 billion lines of shit-code I wrote, and now that it's fast, I want to expand the features, create a core suite of small (PHP?) functions would would be able to auto-execute on each page to allow people to add content to the pages on an ad-hoc basis, and have about 30-40 different little tools to build to make a real, proper Web site publishing framework - tools that for some reason no one else seems to be bothering with...But I know you're all weak, all talk, and that losing your e-commerce stocks took your fire away and you won't actually be joining me in uncovering the possibilities of new narrative connections via the global Interweb because the Web isn't cool anymore. Assholes.... I refuse to forsake the Web I love.
That's it. All documents linked together, all in harmony, all with full knowledge of their place in the hierarchy, but so many possibilities for each to transcend its place.