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IU Technology Architecture Lodge but find that a central frustration of blogs is that stuff is arranged primarily in chronological order, displaying the development of ideas and thoughts, but not necessarily how everything fits together and accumulates over time. Hence, this wiki. (I have wondered whether I should house a "professional" wiki and a personal wiki -- and that might be appropriate -- but in many ways, the division is artificial (more so in a wiki I would argue.)
I introduce wikis on my personal blog.
Balancing act between wikiing and blogging
Something I wrote around Oct 27, 2003:
Regular readers of my weblogs will notice that I've not been blogging very actively lately. I've put a lot more of my online writing energy into writing on my wiki(s). Although I find writing on my wiki particularly satisfying, I know that my readers will find my wiki writing difficult to follow. I will try to correct some of those deficiencies without destroying what I do love about my wikis -- the somewhat random, drop-stuff-in-first-and-explain-later, part of wikis that has me excited about wikis. Nonetheless, I will see what I can do with the FrontPage and SiteNavigation (among other things) to help people who just drop into my wiki.
I've been trying to figuring out a flow of writing that can naturally involve both my wikis and my blogs. One idea that I've had is to review the RecentChanges in my wikis and narrate what I had just written about. Such a process can be useful for both me (as a writer of these items) and for my readers. Yet, if I don't really "add much value" in my narration, the reader is better off just reading RecentChanges for himself, especially if I had been diligent in commenting on what I writing on my wiki entries in the first place.
I certainly have enjoyed being just fire up TodaysNotes and start writing a few thoughts -- and then expand (or contract), elaborate the narrative throughout the day. Those who are used to wikis will understand that a wiki is always open-ended, tentative -- and that frees me as a writer to write accordingly. The downside, however, is that I often don't write with as much depth or care on my wiki as I do on my blogs. When I post an entry on my weblogs, I generally consider doing so an act of publishing. Save for minor stylistic or grammatical touch-ups, I don't make any changes to the text. I might consider deleting the whole entry and noting that I'm withdrawing my post -- but I wouldn't just alter the post substantially.
