{"id":487,"date":"2005-12-08T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=487"},"modified":"2005-12-08T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T02:46:00","slug":"487","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a comment I left on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docuverse.com\/blog\/donpark\/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=27ea0bf8-abda-40f4-aa23-493461c54f26\">Don Park&#8217;s blog<\/a> got <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=2241\">quoted<\/a> by David Berlind.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I said : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here&#8217;s the amazing thing : there are about 8 billion pages accessable through the browser. And not one of them is that difficult to get to. (Assuming you find links going there.)\u2026.How many OSs and desktop applications have 8 billion options and functions? Yet, access to these is through a bewildering variety of different methods : menus and submenus, button-bars, wizards, right-click on the icon to change configuration options, hidden XML configuration files, command line arguments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then David says something <em>very<\/em> right : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Given the way wikis make child&#8217;s play out of Web authoring (and the emergence of applications like WikiCalc), instead of a desktop operating system, how about a Wiki Operating System.  Call it WikiOS (WOS for short).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is, of course, something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nooranch.com\/synaesmedia\/wiki\/wiki.cgi?ProgrammingWithAndInWiki\">I&#8217;ve thought for a long time<\/a>. And it&#8217;s one of the guiding principles behind SdiDesk, hinted at several times in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nooranch.com\/sdidesk\/wiki\/wiki.cgi\/ScreenCasts\">screencasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a comment I left on Don Park&#8217;s blog got quoted by David Berlind. Here&#8217;s what I said : Here&#8217;s the amazing thing : there are about 8 billion pages accessable through the browser. And not one of them is that difficult to get to. (Assuming you find links going there.)\u2026.How many OSs and desktop [&hellip;]<\/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":[473],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}