Entries Tagged as 'Wiki'

Ghost in the machine

May 12th, 2007 · 36 Comments

I found the Sun.Star Cebu newsroom abuzz yesterday over a website that seemed to know a lot of details, even intimate ones, about people and things. When I entered the newsroom, I found reporters, editors, librarians, and newsroom assistants gathered around TV host Jude Bacalso, the paper’s lifestyle editor, who was entering questions and getting [...]

Tags: Free services · Internet · Personal · Wiki

New screencast on using a TiddlyWiki

December 12th, 2006 · 5 Comments

I’ve recreated my earlier video guide on using a TiddlyWiki, a single-page wiki you can use for your notes and task lists. Instead of Wink, I used CamStudio to capture screen activities this time.
Wink is an easy to use free software to capture videos of your screen activities and it’s great for creating tutorials. [...]

Tags: Wiki · free software · planner

Using a TiddlyWiki: a video guide

September 7th, 2006 · 10 Comments

I am a long-time user of TiddlyWikis and its various adaptations. Before a catastrophic accident involving the synchronization of various offline files wiped out my tasks list, I was an extensive user of GTDTiddlyWiki. After the accident, I moved to a server-side TiddlyWiki, alternating between Serversidewiki.com and ZiddlyWiki before finally settling with TiddlySpot.
I am also [...]

Tags: Highlights · LifeHacks · Open source · Wiki · planner

Wiki on a K750i? A txt file will do

March 23rd, 2006 · 4 Comments

I’m a huge fan of TiddlyWiki, a standalone web page that you can edit through a browser for just about anything: to-do lists, notes or any other text data. I’m an extensive user of one of its derivatives: the Zope server-based ZiddlyWiki but before that, I used GTDTiddlyWiki, a version that incorporates a getting things [...]

Tags: Highlights · LifeHacks · Mobile · Wiki · productivity

Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in accuracy on science entries: Nature

December 16th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Wikipedia, recently hit by a controversy over a bogus entry on a journalist, comes close in accuracy–in science entries at least–to Britannica, according to a review by Nature magazine.
The review “revealed numerous errors in both encyclopedias, but among 42 entries tested, the difference in accuracy was not particularly great: the average science entry in Wikipedia [...]

Tags: Internet · Wiki

The network is my computer

November 4th, 2005 · 8 Comments

Early this year I experimented with having all my essential work related data online. I wanted things I needed for my section, my copy desk job and columns centralized on free online accounts and accessible anywhere.
I wanted to be able to work on things anywhere – office, home or an Internet cafe – if I [...]

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