TiddlyWiki for left journoes and researchers

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by Dave Riley

I have been exploring the wonderful world of wikis lately and
engineering a few projects in that mode such as The Activist Toolkit.

I luv the wiki way.( Now there's a t-shirt.)

I am moving a lot of my activity into wiki mode as I explore the
platform and test its potential.I use it for podcasting, file sharing,
web page creation, collaborative editing, pedagogy, and much more of
what takes my fancy as a good idea at the time.

En route I've come across another pristine application -- TiddlyWiki --
the habits of which are almost impossible for me to explain. As Jeremy
Ruston its developer says:

"A TiddlyWiki is like a blog because it's divided up into neat
little chunks (tiddlers), but it encourages you to read it by
hyperlinking rather than sequentially: if you like, a non-linear blog
analogue that binds the individual microcontent items into a cohesive
whole. I think that TiddlyWiki represents a novel medium for writing,
and will promote its own distinctive Writing Style."

Theres' a crude video on Google which explores Ruston's concept
further relative to the whole history of the written word and lineal
or sequential writing.

In many ways this blog harnesses some of these concepts developed
further by Ruston. LeftClick's NEO template
runs like that, on hyperlinks. That's the great power of the labels in
the left hand column and the easy access to content in the central
column.

TiddlyWiki goes further so that the journey around the content is a
massive collage of optional choices. that are layered as you access
them but not layered such that you cannot easily pull one back up to
view it.

Take this DIY site as an example: TiddlyWiki for the rest of
us.Explore the links and you'll get an idea of how it performs.

So what?

Read more...
http://leftclickblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/tiddlywiki-for-left-journoes-and.html