CNET on Wikis

CNET is doing a special five day report entitled “Taking back the Web”. I just finished reading day two, which is dedicated to wikis. If you are trying to wrap your head around wikis or want to read about some of their applications, go read How wikis are changing our view of the world.
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Blogs versus Wikis

As I have written in the past, wikis are collaborative tools that essentially allow any web page of a site to be easily edited without a user having any knowledge of HTML.
Blogs and wikis are two specific types of content management systems (CMS). As such, one of their key goals is to provide a [...]

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Collaborative Power via Wikis

The New Internet offers a number of ways to make your work day more efficient. While blogs are all the buzz right now my bet is that wikis will have a more profound impact in the office.
The reason? Blogs do have an interactive element, where thoughts other than the author’s can be shared (typically via [...]

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Blogging Basics

I’d like to announce the official opening of the TECHNOSIGHT wiki. The purpose of this wiki is to create a knowledge-base for the New Internet, detailing and defining its technology, best practices, uses, and more.
The success of this wiki is very much dependent on you! Both the content and the maintenance of the wiki [...]

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What is a wiki?

Wikis are dynamic online knowledge sharing tools. The term “wiki” means “quick” or “informal” in Hawaiian. Wikipedia, the most famous of all wikis, describes a wiki as

a web application that allows users to add content, as on an Internet forum, but also allows anyone to edit the content. The term Wiki also refers to [...]

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