I’ve referred in the past to the phenomenon of “affinity posting”. The idea of affinity posting is you post not to spread information or start a discussion, but to demonstrate your membership in certain affinity groups. You’re a fan of Doctor Who or Twilight. You’re a beer drinker. You’re a teacher who belives the lecture Continue reading

Yesterday I published one of those unholy been-in-the-drafts-forever posts on issues of linking. Here I see if I can make the point a bit more cleanly. When we started getting people to use federated wiki in December, I thought the default sort of editing would be of the main article. You write a piece on Continue reading

There’s a follow-up to this article, now, which explains the federated wiki angle to this more clearly.. “Everyone here will of course say they are carrying on his work, by whatever twisted interpretation. I for one carry on his work by keeping the links outside the file, as he did.” – Ted Nelson, eulogizing Doug Continue reading

I have a present for you hackers out there. I spent the last couple weekends coding up a standalone federated wiki reader that operates purely in javascript. Here it is: reader.htm. Now here’s what you can do if you know how to program. You can download that file, and and start to play around with Continue reading