{"id":327,"date":"2008-06-19T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-06-19T02:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T02:21:00","slug":"327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m eavesdropping on a fascinating email exchange between Chris Dent (of Blue Oxen and Socialtext fame) now working on TiddlyWeb<\/a> and Frank McIngvale who’s project is WikklyText<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I haven’t had time to take it all in yet. But it looks like Chris has got TiddlyWeb working on the Google App. Engine. And Frank has got a stand-alone TiddlyWiki markup language working.<\/p>\n

The main idea of TiddlyWeb <\/a>continues Chris’s focus (since Blue Oxen days with EEKim, I’d guess) on sub-page level elements on wiki. Remember Blue Oxen’s thing was Purple Numbers, individual paragraph Ids. Here, he’s using “Tiddlers<\/a>“, the individually named, sub-page elements that TiddlyWiki would show or hide, and assembling them in a new, looser collections called “bags”. <\/p>\n

From what I understand so far, having named tiddlers rather than arbitrary purple numbers is definitely a move in the right direction. (In the sense that it makes the small pieces human-addressable as well as machine-addressable.) In fact each item is addressed by a combination of Tiddler name + bag name (where bag is more a kind of policy or query) <\/p>\n

There’s long discussion going on right now about URIs (which seem to become almost queries or operations on the bags) to access the tiddlers in a ReSTful way that I’m still absorbing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, they’re definitely “banging the rocks together” in wiki and breaking pages up into a finer granularity. And, after Twitter’s discovery of the virtues of 140 character status updates, now generalized to a theory of micro-blogging, the world is definitely ready for a wiki micro-chunking experiment. Who knows where it will lead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m eavesdropping on a fascinating email exchange between Chris Dent (of Blue Oxen and Socialtext fame) now working on TiddlyWeb and Frank McIngvale who’s project is WikklyText. I haven’t had time to take it all in yet. But it looks like Chris has got TiddlyWeb working on the Google App. Engine. And Frank has got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,63,123,276,362,363,457,502],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blogging","tag-chris-dent","tag-eekim","tag-microchunking","tag-purple","tag-purple-numbers","tag-tiddlyweb","tag-wiki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}