Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Ad-hoc Information organisation

A blog is usually linked to wider web, and is not expected to reference itself too much. Author is mostly concerned with what to present, occasionally supporting the text with some external references.

A page in a *wiki* most likely has links to another page of the same wiki. Hence, for proper "wikiing" one has to have very good idea of where things are, and how current writing is related to the rest of content.

Both are two sides of the same coin - organizing chunks of information. Blogs are organized automatically but not in a very useful manner (timeline), Wikis - by hand, so additional effort is required.

Tags seem to bring the two closer together - tags are much easier to add than links, and they can be used for adding structure automatically.

There should be the next stop, though... meanwhile, blogging.

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