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  "title": "Simple, neat elegance: Wiki, weblog, and design",
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  "html": "<p>Noticed two things from <a href=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/\">Mike James</a> this morning:</p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/2002/05/10.html#a117\">interesting melding of weblog and wiki</a> over at <a href=\"http://www.tesugen.com/\">www.tesugen.com</a>.  The combination of <a href=\"http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blosxom/\">Blosxom</a>, which elegantly composes the weblog from a simple pile of files, and <a href=\"http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl\">UseModWiki</a>, which can cache its pages in a simple pile of files, makes me think about the combination myself...  (Oh, and TWiki does this, too, not in caching but in the storage of page content in the raw.)  I could make Blosxom search for files by regex (ie. Blog*) and post to the weblog in <span style=\"background : [#FFFFCE](/tag/FFFFCE);\"><a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/UseModWiki?topicparent=Main.FilterData\"><b>?</b></a><font color=\"#0000FF\">UseModWiki</font></span> with a naming convention of pages.  Seems neatly elegant.</p>\n<p>And the second thing are the <a href=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/2002/05/09.html#a116\">MovableWorksOfArt</a> that Mike cites.  Again, simple and neat elegance.  I'm with Mike:  I've got a lot to learn, and a lot to strip down from the design of this site.  I also really need to dig into some proper <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CSS\">CSS</a>.  <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org/\">Mark Pilgrim's</a> <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CSS\">CSS</a> magic shames me.\n\n\n</p>\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<p>shortname=oooadf</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221088499\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.aaronland.net\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9b704dff33489e0ba50f7a6364a8bf5a&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.aaronland.net\">Aaron of Montreal</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221088499\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-10T13:55:17\">2002-05-10T13:55:17</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-WikiFormat\n# line 81 of blosxom\nuse Text::WikiFormat;\nchomp(my $body = Text::WikiFormat::format(join '', ));\nFYI...</div>\n\n\n</li>\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221088500\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://IAwiki.net/EricScheid\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=92ffcf37d534a7e60938bc270f750979&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://IAwiki.net/EricScheid\">Eric Scheid</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221088500\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-11T06:02:44\">2002-05-11T06:02:44</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">On design, can I make a plea that you avail yourself of either javascript or IFRAMEs to insert the little extra bits of content like referrers and such .. just thinking robot-friendly design where the actual page doesn't churn quite so much.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "<p>Noticed two things from <a href=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/\">Mike James</a> this morning:</p>\r\n<p>An <a href=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/2002/05/10.html#a117\">interesting melding of weblog and wiki</a> over at <a href=\"http://www.tesugen.com/\">www.tesugen.com</a>.  The combination of <a href=\"http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blosxom/\">Blosxom</a>, which elegantly composes the weblog from a simple pile of files, and <a href=\"http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl\">UseModWiki</a>, which can cache its pages in a simple pile of files, makes me think about the combination myself...  (Oh, and TWiki does this, too, not in caching but in the storage of page content in the raw.)  I could make Blosxom search for files by regex (ie. Blog*) and post to the weblog in <span style='background : #FFFFCE;'><a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/edit/Main/UseModWiki?topicparent=Main.FilterData\"><b>?</b></a><font color=\"#0000FF\">UseModWiki</font></span> with a naming convention of pages.  Seems neatly elegant.</p>\r\n<p>And the second thing are the <a href=\"http://radio.weblogs.com/0100629/2002/05/09.html#a116\">MovableWorksOfArt</a> that Mike cites.  Again, simple and neat elegance.  I'm with Mike:  I've got a lot to learn, and a lot to strip down from the design of this site.  I also really need to dig into some proper <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CSS\">CSS</a>.  <a href=\"http://diveintomark.org/\">Mark Pilgrim's</a> <a href=\"http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CSS\">CSS</a> magic shames me.<br />\r\n</p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\nshortname=oooadf\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221088499\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.aaronland.net\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9b704dff33489e0ba50f7a6364a8bf5a&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://www.aaronland.net\">Aaron of Montreal</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221088499\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-10T13:55:17\">2002-05-10T13:55:17</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Text-WikiFormat\r\n\r\n# line 81 of blosxom\r\n\r\nuse Text::WikiFormat;\r\nchomp(my $body = Text::WikiFormat::format(join '', ));\r\n\r\nFYI...</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221088500\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://IAwiki.net/EricScheid\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=92ffcf37d534a7e60938bc270f750979&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://IAwiki.net/EricScheid\">Eric Scheid</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221088500\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2002-05-11T06:02:44\">2002-05-11T06:02:44</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">On design, can I make a plea that you avail yourself of either javascript or IFRAMEs to insert the little extra bits of content like referrers and such .. just thinking robot-friendly design where the actual page doesn't churn quite so much.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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