{"id":511,"date":"2005-10-03T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=511"},"modified":"2005-10-03T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T13:55:00","slug":"511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Segal&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ricksegal.typepad.com\/pmv\/2005\/10\/geeks_and_the_t.html\">post<\/a> is a good snapshot of the response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writeboard.com\/\">writeboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I love wiki. And I want to see the wiki idea and name become as widely known and adopted as, say, &#8220;blog&#8221;. So I&#8217;m not really into brushing &#8220;wiki&#8221; under the carpet as too geeky for ordinary people to understand. (Which is, naturally, why I named my program SdiDesk and not something obvious like wikipad, wikinotes or uga-uga &#8211; doh! \ud83d\ude41 ).<\/p>\n<p>37 Signals are a smart company. They have a genius for doing one little thing (that often seems trivially obvious) in a very usable and user-friendly way, and turning it into a massive hit. So it&#8217;s not surprising they&#8217;re coming in to disrupt wiki (and JotSpot) with a simpler-than-you-can-possibly-believe one page, wiki-like thing.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how it takes off. What strikes me, is that they&#8217;ve removed what seems to me to be the wiki &#8220;essence&#8221; : the ease of creating multiple pages and links between them via concrete page names. And, of course, what most people remember : unrestricted access.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s left is a little bit of wiki-markup. Plus versioning. And the fact that this is a collaboratively editable document.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if they&#8217;ll subtly introduce multiple pages with links between them at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Segal&#8217;s post is a good snapshot of the response to writeboard. Personally I love wiki. And I want to see the wiki idea and name become as widely known and adopted as, say, &#8220;blog&#8221;. So I&#8217;m not really into brushing &#8220;wiki&#8221; under the carpet as too geeky for ordinary people to understand. (Which is, [&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-511","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\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}